The national police announced on Saturday that two police officers are “slightly injured by jets of firecrackers“and that a police vehicle was”degraded“, on New Years night. One night”quite agitated“indicates a police source to France Bleu Alsace, in particular in the districts of Neuhof and Hautepierre.
Police officers targeted by mortar fire
Earlier in the evening, a vehicle of the anti-crime squad was targeted with a mortar in Lingolsheim. A man has been taken into custody. Same to Ostwald, where another man was arrested. In Schitligheim too, police officers were targeted by mortar fire in the parking lot of the Leclerc supermarket. There are no injuries, the police said.
Several burnt cars
A police source told France Bleu Alsace, at 2 o’clock in the morning, that they had made 25 arrests, and that “several vehicles were set on fire“in several districts of the Alsatian capital. Four prefectural decrees were also recently taken, including one prohibiting the sale and use of firecrackers and fireworks, very popular in Alsace and in neighboring Germany during the New Year’s Eve where they nevertheless cause many injuries or mutilations.
Last year, a young man died, his head blown off by a mortar. Another established in Strasbourg and in six neighboring municipalities a curfew for minors under 16 unaccompanied by a parent.