Three police officers were injured, but the nature of their injuries remains to be determined more precisely, France Télévisions learned from the police headquarters.
Some incidents broke out during a demonstration against “police violence and systemic racism” in Paris, Saturday September 23. A police car was stoned and a bank damaged.
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Shortly after the start of this demonstration bringing together several thousand people, a procession of hundreds of individuals dressed in black and hooded formed in front of the organizations and collectives who had called for the mobilization, according to an AFP journalist. Arriving at the Anvers metro station, in the north of Paris, they damaged a Caisse d’Epargne bank branch.
They then threw projectiles at a police car stuck in traffic on Boulevard de Clichy. The car was attacked “with an iron bar”reported the Paris police headquarters. One of the police officers then briefly got out of the vehicle, gun in hand, to keep the demonstrators at bay, according to several videos posted on social networks.
Three police officers injured
A “Brav-M intervention”named after this controversial motorcycle police unit, “made it possible to stop the action and provide shelter” the police officers present in the vehicle, added the prefecture. Three police officers were injured, but the nature of their injuries remains to be precisely determined, this same source detailed to franceinfo.
“The Parisian ‘demonstration’ saw unacceptable violence against the police. We see where anti-police hatred leads,” reacted the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. “I strongly condemn these attacks and provide my support to the attacked and injured police officers. for his part declared the prefect of police, Laurent Nuñez.
In the rest of the country, demonstrations were generally peaceful.