It is around 9 p.m. Thursday evening, when a group of fifteen to twenty men descends in close ranks, at a gymnastic pace, rue des Panoyaux, in the XXe district of Paris. They are armed with pickaxe handles, witnesses said. Their target: Saint-Sauveur, a bar located just before the corner with rue Victor-Letalle. Violence is unleashed, the attackers strike customers seated on the terrace, who take refuge in the bar. Then other people arrive and quickly counterattack, fleeing the attackers. Among these, one had to be hospitalized, his life is not in danger.
War of the bands? Not at all, or political gangs. This attack was carried out by the Zouaves Paris (ZVP), a violent and informal small group of far-right radicals well known in the capital. They even paid for the luxury of claiming the action, broadcasting a “CR” (for “account”) of their version of the facts. A text with virent accents
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