Two police officers were injured by mortar and cobblestone fire in the Beaudottes district of Sevran on Tuesday evening.
According to a police source, it was around 10:30 p.m. when a RATP driver reported that garbage cans had been installed in the roadblock and that some were burning. Firefighters went to the scene to put out the fire, with the help of police. They were then taken to task.
“They were hit by cobblestones and mortar,” continues a police source. At least two of them were hit. One was slightly burned by a mortar. The second had to be stitched up because he had been hit by a stone. A screen-printed vehicle was also damaged by stones and mortars. It is not known at this time whether there have been any arrests.
“It remains extremely tense” at Beaudottes
Clashes between the police and residents have resurfaced at irregular intervals in Beaudottes since the death on March 26 of Jean-Paul Benjamin, known as “JP”, a resident of the district. This 32-year-old man, father of a family, was fatally shot by a policeman, a member of the anti-crime brigade of the neighboring town of Aulnay-sous-Bois, while he was driving a stolen van.
Three weeks later, two police officers were slightly injured during a clash with residents of Beaudottes, which led to new scenes of urban violence the following night in these two towns in the northeast of Seine-Saint-Denis. . A young man was arrested on this occasion. Once released, he explained that he had been molested by the police as he sought to ease tensions.
“It remains extremely tense”, confirms this Wednesday a resident of Beaudottes, according to whom the incidents of the previous evening followed a chase between the police and a teenager on a motorcycle. Which, he thinks he knows, would have ended up being arrested. “Everyone imagined a new disaster scenario, another drama, and they ran after it,” he reports.
Since the death of “JP”, “the police force is quite regularly stoned at Beaudottes”, also observes a municipal source. Which underlines, however, that the summer activities organized during the day in the district take place in a serene atmosphere.