2023-11-27 07:43:05
It is a call for “calm and respect for everyone”. This Sunday, a week after the death of young Thomas which led to violent actions by the ultra-right and tensions in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme), the public prosecutor of Valence, Laurent de Caigny, spoke on the increasingly tense situation.
“No one can take justice into their own hands outside the law,” he said in a brief statement to the press, calling for investigators to be allowed to work “given the extreme seriousness of the facts.” “Those who oppose it with illegitimate violence will be held accountable,” he warned.
Since the death of Thomas, killed leaving a ball on November 19 in the village of Crépol, “the elucidation of the facts has not been completed”, he continued: “the two investigating judges and the many investigators are still mobilized, they are working to gather evidence on the violence committed against the 16 other victims.”
Clashes between ultra-right activists and police
The prosecutor also indicated that the ultra-right’s demonstrations of force in Romans-sur-Isère, Saturday evening and Sunday, had resulted in “unacceptable violence”, with 24 arrests and 5 injured among the police officers.
On Sunday, around forty identity activists gathered in the center of the city and were dispersed by the police, according to the prefecture which reported 7 arrests: three ultra-right activists and four young people from the La district. Currency, from which some of the suspects linked to the Crépol drama come.
VIDEO. Death of Thomas: 20 arrests after violence provoked by the ultra-right in Romans-sur-Isère
Saturday evening, around a hundred ultra-right activists from different cities across the country marched hooded through the streets of Romans with the aim of “fighting” with the young people of La Monnaie, according to a police source. They had been blocked by the police, with whom they had clashed for a long time. One of these activists “indicates having been kidnapped and molested”, declared the Valencia prosecutor, specifying that he had contacted the judicial police about these facts.
Images of a naked man lying on the ground are circulating on the accounts of identity activists who have been increasing calls for revenge since the Crépol tragedy, for which nine young people were indicted and six imprisoned.
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