Keystone-SDA
The Prélaz district of Lausanne, where a teenager who flee from the police on Sunday morning, had a second night of riots. Young people, some hooded, faced the police who carried out seven arrests.
(Keystone-ATS) After a first night of riots on Sunday evening, the situation deteriorated again on Monday evening shortly before 10:00 p.m., in Lausanne. New fireworks have been drawn against the police in the Prélaz district. The demonstrators instructed the police who responded with tear gas and by means of a water launcher truck, a photographer from Keystone-ATS said.
Between 150 and 200 people, some hooded, again installed dams by means of burned containers and garbage cans. Around 10:50 p.m., in the Boveresses/Praz-Séchaud district, other young people stood fire to containers and strongly damaged a bus from Lausanne transport (TL). The situation quickly recovered in this district, according to a state of the Vaud cantonal police released in the early hours on Tuesday morning.
“Better prepared” rioters
“Again confronted with the aggressiveness of the rioters, better prepared and just as determined as the day before, the police had to use the means of constraint, i.e. 4 shots of rubber prisms and 54 tear gas shots. The vehicle tonne pump (Mad) of the cantonal police was also engaged in order to project water and disperse the demonstrators. Calm returned shortly after midnight, “said the press release from the police, whose patrols deployed on the spot, suffered” stones of stones, site barriers, mortars, molotov cocktails and pyrotechnic devices “.
Seven people were arrested. At this stage, the police assessment does not report any injuries among its workforce and among the demonstrators.
New call for calm
The firefighters were engaged under police protection on various sites, in order to circumscribe ten fire departures. For their part, the TL will file a criminal complaint for damage to the property.
Already Sunday evening, a rally of a hundred young people had degenerated, near the places where the 17 -year -old was killed. Calm had finally returned to the sector from 01:00 in the morning.
Police and authorities again appeal to calm.