Urban violence took place on Sunday evening at Tourcoing (North) for the second consecutive evening, without causing injury, we learned from the prefecture and police source.
After an evening marked on Saturday by the throwing of projectiles on the police following an intervention for a rodeo in the Red Cross district, the prefecture indicated on Sunday evening that “ incidents Were still in progress around midnight, again throwing projectiles, without deploring any injuries.
People “placed in police custody”
The zonal director of public security in Hauts-de-France, Jean-François Papineau, reported a “Agitation of a greater magnitude (than Saturday, Editor’s note) on the part of a few groups of individuals”, adding that the situation was “Controlled by the police force on the spot”.
Police reinforcements were sent to the Burgundy district of Tourcoing in the early evening, according to union sources.
During the troubles of Saturday, “Two individuals were taken into custody around 7 p.m. following a motorized rodeo”, told AFP the public prosecutor in Lille, Carole Étienne.
After this rodeo, around 11 pm, the police intervened “ for a vehicle fire positioned in the middle of the roadway and were the target of throwing mortars and stones “ and another individual, a minor, was then arrested, continued Ms. Étienne. He must be brought before the children’s judge on Monday.
Rising tensions
Of “Agitation attempts” also took place on Saturday in the district of Lille Moulins, with fireworks mortar fire, according to Mr. Papineau.
“The fight against drug trafficking in the neighborhoods has intensified for seven or eight months, which has increased tensions, which are expressed at nightfall”, he stressed.
“Urban violence, it does not stop, almost everywhere in Hauts-de-France”, lamented Arnaud Boutelier, regional secretary of the Alliance police union in Hauts-de-France.
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