2023-06-30 05:56:05
Clashes all night long in Nanterre
The night was very tense in Nanterre, the Hauts-de-Seine prefecture which has become the epicenter of the violence. Firework rockets and grenades erupted in Pablo Picasso’s working-class neighborhood where the slain teenager lived.
The Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) of the Paris police headquarters, famous for having attacked the jihadists who occupied the Bataclan on November 13, 2015, deployed for a moment at the entrance to the city and its famous cloud towers, supported in the sky by a helicopter.
The situation in Marseilles
In the city center of Marseille, it is the storefront of the municipal library of the Alcazar which was damaged, according to the town hall. A short distance away, on the Old Port, scuffles pitted the police against a group of 100 to 150 people who allegedly tried to set up barricades.
Town hall and school burned in Lille
In Lille, the Wazemmes district town hall was targeted, as well as a school in the Moulins district, according to France Blue North.
In Roubaix, a social center was set on fire.
A burnt bus depot in Aubervilliers
In Aubervilliers, a RATP bus depot was set on fire.
Looting of shops rue de Rivoli in Paris
Looting in the heart of Paris. At least two downtown shops, including one in Les Halles, were vandalized. Fourteen people were arrested, according to the Paris police headquarters (PP), including some North stations with stolen items. Rue de Rivoli, an artery in the center of the capital, 16 people were arrested with bags, shoes and clothes stolen from a store.
Almost all the communes of Seine-Saint-Denis impacted
In Seine-Saint-Denis, “almost all the municipalities” have been impacted, noted an annoyed police source to AFP. Many supermarkets were looted, particularly in Montreuil and Epinay-sur-Seine. In Drancy, rioters used a truck to force the entrance to a shopping center which was partly looted and burned, said a police source.
In Pantin, about twenty young people dressed in black, armed with fireworks fired in the air or in the direction of the police, noted an AFP journalist.
A fire broke out at the town hall of Clichy-sous-Bois. Thirteen buses from the RATP depot in Aubervilliers were set on fire.
Lots of damage
“There is no very violent confrontation in direct contact with the police, but there are a number of vandalized stores, looted or even burned businesses”, detailed a senior police officer. national.
This was the case in the heart of Paris, at Les Halles and in the rue de Rivoli which leads to the Louvre, but also in the Parisian suburbs, in the urban area of Rouen, in Nantes and in Brest, where the sub-prefect Jean- Philippe Setbon described to AFP “a lot of clashes between police and small very mobile groups”.
Like the day before, the police were also targeted, trash cans, cars and buses burned, in particular in Villeurbanne (Rhône), noted AFP journalists, or in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis ).
At least 421 arrests
Around 3:00 a.m., at least 421 people were arrested at the national level, according to the entourage of Gérald Darmanin, whose “most” are between 14 and 18 years old.
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