Corona France: Riots over alleged police violence in Paris & Co.

TDespite stringent exit restrictions in the wake of the Corona crisis, media outbursts have raged again in several Paris suburbs during the night.

Police officers were throwing fireworks at young people, as pictures of various Internet services showed on Wednesday night. According to the newspaper “Le Parisien”, there were several arrests.

Burning cars were also seen. The scene was high-rise settlements in Clichy, Villeneuve-La Garenne and Nanterre.

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The unrest had started after a motorcyclist was injured on the weekend. The man’s leg was badly injured on Saturday when he crashed his machine into the open door of an unmarked police car.

The police said the man was traveling too fast and was not wearing a helmet. The police opened the door to control the man.

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Several witnesses claimed that the door was opened on purpose to stop the man. There was also a video on social networks showing the man screaming in pain. The motorcyclist is said to have filed a complaint against unknown persons, as reported by “Le Parisien”.

There is always unrest in Alsace

The incidents bring back memories of 2005, when there were riots in a suburb of Paris for several weeks. At that time, two teenagers had died trying to escape the police.

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There were also several arrests in the urban area of ​​the Alsace metropolis of Strasbourg, as reported by local media. According to this, several trash cans and a vehicle had previously been set on fire in the Port du Rhin district.

In Meinau, two Molotov cocktails were thrown on the house wall of the police station. Tensions are increasing in some parts of the city, said Robert Herrmann, deputy mayor of Strasbourg, to the France Bleu radio station.

These were the first such incidents in the urban area since the beginning of the strict exit restrictions in France in mid-March.

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