Dijon it was once again prey to tensions on Monday night. For the fourth evening in a rowin this town is unaccustomed to this kind of disorder, the dozens of people armed with iron bars and handguns, which we do not know if they are bogus or not, gathered on Monday in the sensitive area of the Grésilles.
These men in balaclavas for the most part shot in the air, destroyed cameras, video-protection, and set fire to garbage cans and vehicles, indicated to the AFP to police.
A team of journalists from France 3 “has been taking part in and his vehicle caillassé “ and a driver has been “assaulted and his vehicle was thrown against a barricade of burning “according to the prefecture.
To 20 h 30, 60 gendarmes mobiles, a quarantine of CRS and reinforcements of the brigade, tasked with fighting crime (BAC), as well as of the RAID, have intervened in order to put an end to the violence. “A hundred opponents “ were then confronted by the forces of order, has indicated to the AFP the prefect of Côte d’or Bernard Schmeltz.
#dijon Following the violent assault of a motorist whose vehicle was set on fire, and after the assault of journalists, the intervention of the security forces in the district of Grésilles
— Prefect Burgundy-Franche-Comté, Prefect of Côte-d’or (@Prefet21_BFC) June 15, 2020
The intervention ended at around 22 h, leaving only a few charred carcasses of garbage bins and vehicles in the area turned quiet, has found an AFP journalist. Four people have been arrested, according to the prefecture.
According to the prefect Schmeltz, the alleged harasser did not belong to the chechen community, unlike these last three days where several tens or even hundreds of them had gathered in the city centre of Dijon and then to Grésilles to carry out targeted attacks in an apparent settling of accounts.
“We have not identified any presence outside, what are people from Dijon “assured Mr. Schmeltz regarding people gathered on Monday evening. Sources in police have specified that these new attacks were the result of people wanting to defend their “territory “ against the repeated incursions of the Chechens.
In the evening, the ministry of the Interior ruled “ineligible “ the “violent public disorder and acts of intimidation “ in recent days, promising “a firm response “. The secretary of State, Laurent Nunez makes an on-site Tuesday.
On Monday, a reinforcement of a squadron of gendarmerie mobile, 110 soldiers, has been sent to the site, where the secretary of State for the Interior, Laurent Nunez, is expected on Tuesday.
“Unacceptable chaos “
The prosecutor of Dijon, Eric Mathais, had reported earlier Monday that “six wounded,” had been registered “in total, in three successive episodes (Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening) “ for no one was arrested. An investigation has been opened, “in particular, for attempted murder organised, damage, incitement to violence “in cosaisine between the judicial police and the public security, according to him.
These new tensions are a result of punitive expeditions “completely new “ conducted this weekend by members of the chechen community. According to police, a first raid had been launched Friday evening in the city centre following the assault, on 10 June, a young man of 16 years old, coming to this community.
In an interview with the local daily The Public Good, a man posing as a Chechen who participated in the expedition has confirmed that the operation was intended to avenge a “16 year olds “, a member of his community who would have been “assaulted “ by drug dealers.
Fifty of the Chechen republic, according to the police, returned in the night from Saturday to Sunday, this time in the neighborhood of Grésilles, and a manager of a pizzeria has been seriously injured by bullets, according to the same source.
A third expedition was still mobilized, in the night of Sunday to Monday, 200 Chechens, also to Grésilles, according to a police source. On social networks, the video of a car traveling at a brisk pace and having a slope in front of a crowd of men in balaclavas before return was widely reported since Monday morning.
The policy responses have succeeded on Monday evening. “See what our leaders have left to do to our beautiful country breaks the heart.”, has tweeted Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced a “unacceptable chaos “. “The armed bands shall be disbanded. The gang disarmed “, has tweeted the leader of France insubordinate.
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