“Unacceptable” actions were committed on Friday evening, targeting the police and firefighters, the prefect denounced on Saturday.
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A unit specializing in urban violence dispatched to Rillieux-La-Pape (Rhône). The prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Rhône region announced on the social network A deployment decided following “unacceptable urban violence committed last night (Friday) targeting law enforcement and SDMIS 69 crews”, the firefighters, writes the prefect.
According to the regional daily Progressthe Semailles district has actually “been the scene of urban violence” Friday night. “Bus shelters were damaged on Avenue des Nations. A bus was stoned. Trash cans were set on fire on the traffic lanes. Municipal and national police officers, dispatched in large numbers, were the target of projectiles and came under fire fireworks mortars”write our colleagues, specifying that no agent was injured. “They used tear gas and ball launchers to restore calm,” reports Progress. Violence also took place in the neighboring town of Vaulx.
