During the night of Sunday to Monday, 176 people were arrested in Paris and in his surroundings, on the sidelines of the festivities of July 14. Arrests carried out during episodes of urban violence and mortar fire, said the prefect of police, Laurent Nuñez.
“This morning (Monday), for the whole Paris agglomeration, there are 176 arrests. It was 156 last year so there is a very sustained activity, “said the prefect on CNews/Europe1, insisting on” urban violence well at the rendezvous “.
Supported security measures until Tuesday
“These violence took the form of the use of mortar shots against the police, construction of barricades here and there, of fire of trash,” he detailed.
The PSG having been beaten in the final of the World Cup by the London club Chelsea (3-0), “there was no gathering” festive linked to this meeting, underlined Mr. Nunez. “In any case, if there had been, we would have dispersed them, especially around the Parc des Princes or on the Champs-Elysées, where there was a large, large device,” he recalled.
The security measures will remain supported until Tuesday, with in particular the security on Monday evening of the fireworks fire in Paris, which should attract, according to Mr. Nuñez, several tens of thousands of people. Of the 176 arrests, 43 are linked to the detention or the use of mortars, he said.
15,000 mortars seized, a fire destroys a gymnasium
According to Laurent Nuñez, the police carried out “more than 250 checks of public roads, vehicles, shops that sell this type of artifice, for the Parisian agglomeration alone.
“We have seized nearly 15,000 mortars in total. And even today (Monday), checks will continue. Fifteen thousand mortars is huge, ”noted the prefect.
Laurent Nuñez pointed out “only one fact”, a fire of a gymnasium in Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis) on the night of Sunday to Monday. According to a police source, “the fire, put to a car nearby, spread to the gymnasium which was completely destroyed”.
Some 3,500 square meters were burnt down and there was no victim, according to the police source indicating “a large device of a dozen water spears, about fifty devices and just under 200 mobilized soldiers”.
