Riot rage spreads following police assassination of Nahel
Scenes of riots, mortars and fires marked the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in the department of Hauts-de-Seine, but also more sporadically in other departments of Île-de-France after the death of Nahel, 17 years old. The teenager was killed on Tuesday morning 27th June in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) by a police shooting [at point-blank range in the chest], the latter justifying his act by a refusal to comply. The policeman responsible for the fatal shooting, aged 38 years, is being questioned by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) as part of the investigation for intentional homicide opened by the Nanterre prosecutor’s office.
In addition to the 31 arrests during this first night of riots, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin speaks of « 24 police wounded » and of « about forty vehicles burnt ». Today Wednesday 28th June, 2,000 police and gendarmes will be deployed in Paris and its inner suburbs.
A Nanterre même, Urban violence has been concentrated in the neighbourhoods of Vieux pont where Nahel was from, but also Zilina, Berthelot, Pablo Picasso and Damades. The police were targeted by projectiles, fireworks mortars and sometimes Molotov cocktails. Approximately vehicles and garbage cans – often erected as barricades – were destroyed in the municipality. Fires were also lit along the rails of the RER A, between Nanterre and Rueil-Malmaison. Several administrative buildings (Public finances, community centre, two school groups) were also damaged by fires. « Various public and private buildings, among which some schools, have suffered significant and unacceptable degradation, sometimes irreparable », the mayor Patrick Jarry laments.
On the side of the authorities, 20 police were slightly injured, among which 18 CRS and two BAC officers of Gennevilliers. Ten police vehicles and a fire engine of the Paris fire brigade (BSPP) were also damaged.
Hauts-de-Seine. Urban violence spread tonight in the Hauts-de-Seine. Cars, wheels and garbage cans were burnt in Asnières, Clichy, Colombes, Gennevilliers, Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Rueil-Malmaison, Suresnes, Boulogne-Billancourt, Bourg-la-Reine, Clamart, Montrouge, Bagneux, Vanves, and Malakoff. In the municipalities where the clashes were the hardest, the security forces used tear gas canisters and rubber bullets.
Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines), night of Tuesday to Wednesday 28 June 2023 : the town hall annex of the Val-Fourré district is reduced to ashes during the night.
Yvelines. The first clashes were reported around midnight, at Mantes-la-Jolie. They spread like wildfire to Sartrouville, Andrésy, Trappes, Les Mureaux, Limay, Poissy, Coignières, Bougival, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Chanteloup-les-Vignes, La Verrière.
In most cases, these were garbage can fires and projectiles launched. At Meulan-en-Yvelines, the community centre located on Allée des Marguerites was set on fire around 3:10 a.m. The entire ground floor was hit: people would have broken a window before throwing a Molotov-type device inside. On the same night, a fire was started on the back façade of the supermarket Sitis Market, located a few hundred metres away, without causing too much damage. At Mantes-la-Jolie, the town hall annex of Val-Fourré was set on fire and and significant damage was caused. According to several reports, a group of young teenagers forced their way into the building around 12:30 a.m., before setting fire to pallets in the main lobby.
Meulan-en-Yvelines (Yvelines), night of Tuesday to Wednesday 28th June 2023 : the associations centre in the district of Paradise.
Essonne. Seven vehicles and garbage containers were set on fire in Athis-Mons. Aux Ulis, A police station was damaged and two police cars burned. Garbage cans and burning vehicles were also struck at Courcouronnes, Corbeil-Essonnes, Massy, Evry, Etampes, Epinay-sur-Orge and Juvisy-sur-Orge.
Seine-Saint-Denis. Tensions also spread in Seine-Saint-Denis, in particular to Saint-Denis et Montfermeil. In the department, the police responded with more than 46 shots of rubber bullets (LBD) during the interventions.
Val d’Oise. One person was arrested in Argenteuil, in Val-d’Oise, suspected of damaging a municipal police car. Barricades were set up during the night, and mortars fired. Garbage bin fires also occurred in Cergy, in Deuil-la-Barre, Sarcelles, Saint-Gratien, Eragny.
Bordeaux, Aubiers district, 28 June 2023
A little further afield. In addition to some neighbourhoods in the Paris region, tensions were also noted elsewhere in France. In Bordeaux notably, in the Aubiers district, as well as in the Cité du Midi in Floirac and the priority Génicar neighbourhood in Lormont. Cars and bins were set alight. In Dijon, Several dozen people confronted the police between 2am and 5am in the Grésilles neighbourhood. Projectiles and Molotov cocktails were thrown at the police who responded with tear gas, as well as in Roubaix and Hem (North) or Colmar (Haut-Rhin).
[Synthesis of the Parisien/France Bleu/Actu78, 28 June 2023]
On the town hall of Carhaix (Finistère), on June 28 in the morning…
via: sansnom translated by Act for freedom now!
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