43 are linked to the detention or the use of mortars, said Monday morning the prefect of police Laurent Nuñez.
The festivities of July 14 gave rise to 176 arrests in Paris and its relatives around the night of Sunday to Monday, during episodes of urban violence and mortar fire, the prefect of police, Laurent Nuñez said on Monday morning. Of the 176 arrests, 43 are linked to the detention or the use of mortars, he said. According to information from Figarothese arrests led to 87 police custody in total.
“This morning, for the entire Parisian agglomeration, we have 176 arrests. It was 156 last year so there is a very sustained activity »underlined the prefect of police on Cnews et Europe 1insisting on “Urban violence well at the rendezvous”. “These violence has taken the form of mortar shots against the police, construction of barricades here and there, fire of garbage cans”he detailed.
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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, said Laurent Nuñez. “Anyway, if there had been, we would have dispersed them, especially around the Parc des Princes or on the Champs-Élysées, where there was a large, large device”he recalled.
The security measures will remain supported until Tuesday, with in particular the security Monday evening of the fireworks fire in Paris, which should attract, according to Laurent Nuñez, several tens of thousands of people.
Seizure of 15,000 mortars
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. 15,000 mortars, it’s huge ”noted the prefect.
Laurent Nuñez reported “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 burned down and there was no victim, according to the police source indicating “A large device of a dozen water spears, around fifty devices and just under 200 mobilized soldiers”.