Three people were arrested on Friday the 1stAhem On the afternoon of October, after urban violence in Saint-Fons, on the outskirts of Lyon, where similar incidents also occurred in Rillieux-la-Pape, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned from a police source. This is a “Series of incidents possibly related to the date of Halloween”held on Thursday evening, commented the prefect delegate for the defense and security of the Rhône, Juliette Bossart-Trignat.
In Saint-Fons, south of Lyon, at the end of the day on Friday, a group of about thirty people set fire to cars and garbage cans and fired pyrotechnic mortars. The police who arrived at the scene were targeted by projectiles and had to use tear gas.
Three people were arrested and taken into custody following these incidents, according to a police source. In Rillieux-la-Pape, another city in the metropolis located north of Lyon, urban violence occurred two nights in a row.
About twenty “hooded and masked young people”
On Thursday, hooded youths set fire to several cars and garbage containers, and three people were arrested. On Friday, around 9 p.m., two Transports en commun Lyonnais (TCL) buses were set on fire by around twenty people. “Hooded and masked youth”according to M.me Bossart-Trignat.
The group of young people “They stopped the two articulated buses, made the drivers and passengers get off, poured gasoline on them and set them on fire.” the buses, he detailed. One of the burning vehicles spun slightly and threatened an apartment building whose residents had to be briefly evacuated.
The law enforcement officers who intervened were “violently attacked”with streams of projectiles, the prefect added during a press conference in Lyon. A police officer was slightly injured in the face.
Shortly before, on the same avenue, police officers had intervened to stop a “wild barbecue” organized by about twenty young people. Some cars and garbage cans were also set on fire and the police used tear gas. One person was arrested.
