New Years Eve was pretty quiet, apart from a brief slab from the police at la Fontaine-d’Ouche, during the night, with two tear gas canisters fired from the police side to put an end to the situation.
Some violence to report
Contacted by phone, the director of the prefect’s cabinet, Danyl Afsoud, confirms “that the night was generally calm. But we still had five burnt cars. Two in Dijon, one in Chenôve, one in Saint-Apollinaire and one in Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur. In addition, there was a garbage container and a scooter set on fire.
During the interventions of the police, gendarmerie and firefighters, professionals sometimes had to deal with clashes and throwing stones. An agent was also injured during an arrest in Beaune, in the context of domestic violence. The figures for this New Year’s Eve are down compared to 2019 ”.
Also calm on the roads
According to our count, last year there were seven cars burned and thirteen garbage cans set on fire. The end of 2020 will also have been calm on the roads, “with 136 road checks having identified 8 alcoholic drivers and 4 having consumed narcotics”, adds Danyl Afsoud. According to the prefecture, the citizens of Côte-d’Or seem to have been “very respectful of the curfew. There were no reported clandestine parties or gatherings. The message of firmness sent has been heard and above all, the population has in mind that compliance with health rules is essential ”.
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Their car went up in flames on Thursday night at 11:40 p.m., a few minutes before the switch to 2021
Unfortunately, not everyone has benefited from this tranquility. Thus, Léa (loan name), 48 years old, who lives rue de la Corvée in Dijon, had an eventful end of the year. She is one of the five unfortunate owners of burnt cars. His vehicle caught fire at 11:40 p.m., a few minutes before the switch to 2021. “We were just telling each other what we wanted for 2021. Ironically, my husband was saying he wanted to ride more motorcycles this new year. That’s when our neighbor came to tell us that our 306 was on fire… ”
Rags, probably coated with an accelerator and placed between the wheels, would be the source of the fire of the only car of this family. For her, the year 2021 therefore began with a complaint filed at the police station and an appeal to her insurer. “It’s just material and we live in the city, so luckily we have other ways of getting around. But we had to give up bringing our student daughter back to Lille, she had to take the train. But we remain philosophers! ”
“The curfew was rather well respected”
As for the gendarmes of the Dijon company, we see, as in many other areas of France, that the night “was relatively calm, except for two vehicles set on fire, one at Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur. in a residence, the other in Saint-Apollinaire, on the edge of the Dijon district of Grésilles. The two facts are not linked. More generally, we noticed very little traffic and no noise at night. The curfew was rather well respected and there was no attempt to return home in the middle of the night ”.
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