2024-01-03 03:14:32
Twelve people were arrested on Sunday evening near the Administrative Detention Center (CRA) of Paris-Vincennes, suspected of having wanted to commit violence, we learned from consistent sources on Tuesday. According to several media, they were preparing to orchestrate an escape from the CRA, from where eleven people had already escaped on Christmas Day.
A CRA is a closed place, guarded by the police, welcoming foreigners subject to a removal decision, pending their return. That of Paris-Vincennes, to the south-east of the capital (12th arrondissement), has 235 places.
According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, the twelve people gathered “were arrested with their faces hidden near the CRA, and a vehicle was discovered containing Molotov cocktail-type explosive devices.” According to a police source, these people were arrested “around 10 p.m. on the night of Sunday to Monday”.
The press mentions ultra-left activists
Europe 1 claimed that these twelve people were activists of the “radical left”. “One of them, of Italian origin and at the origin of the project, is listed as S,” the radio also said.
The prosecution simply indicated that these twelve people had been placed “in police custody for participating in a gathering with a view to committing violence”. Police custody for this type of offense lasts a maximum of forty-eight hours and should end on Tuesday evening and give rise to an orientation decision from the Paris prosecutor’s office on Wednesday.
Police prefect Laurent Nuñez announced on December 26 a strengthening of the CRA’s security system, in terms of staff and cameras, after the escape of eleven people on Christmas Day, and a first escape attempt accompanied by a fire on Saturday December 23.
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