About fifty young people have set out to the police, following several arrests and seized to fight against drug trafficking.
During the night of Saturday to Sunday in a sensitive district of Béziers, around fifty individuals held a ambush to the police, said police sources. An apartment was burnt down in the presence of its occupant after a fireworks mortar.
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The facts took place in the Devèze district, around one in the morning. According to Commissioner Eric Agniel, of the Interdepartmental Directorate of the National Police, “an ambush“Was organized by drug traffickers in reaction to”Several arrests and seizures of drugs for a few days in this district of Devèze». «They contacted the firefighters themselves for a trash fire (and) they were nearly fifty, some of which on the roofs of the buildings“, Upon arrival. At the call of the firefighters, several members of the anti -crime brigade then went to the site “Before being trapped by individuals“Said Commissioner Agniel, according to whom”The riot was finally stopped following the conflagration of the apartment».
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A slightly injured policeman
One of the fireworks mortars drawn “Embredd an apartment and required rescue by means of a person blocked in the 4th and other refugees on the roof. The emergency services had to intervene in a tense situation, under the protection of the internal security forces“Said the Hérault firefighters. The disaster completely destroyed the 130 m2 apartment, which belonged to an elderly person, without making any other victim than the occupant’s cat.
Also according to Commissioner Agniel, a police officer was slightly injured in the calf by a mortar shot. Eleven people were evacuated from the building but no arrest took place.
