“Urban guerrilla warfare”, CRS deployed, injured … What happened this weekend in the city?

After a night of clashes in the night from Friday to Saturday, calm returned to the Val de l’Arrence district of Limoges. Furthermore, CRS had been deployed the day before in the city of Haute-Vienne. Nevertheless, 24 hours after an episode of urban violence, involving a hundred hooded individuals. However, An investigation was opened for participation with weapon in a crowd. Meanwhile, violence on police officials, aggravated extortion and damage to the organized band of the property of others. For example, 20 Minutes takes stock of the situation.

What happened? – "urban guerrilla warfare", crs deployed,

The situation degenerated in the night from Friday to Saturday, around 1 a.m. Furthermore, According to the prefecture, a “hundred people” “urban guerrilla warfare”, crs deployed, blocked the RN141 leading to Angoulême and attacked vehicles with baseball bats. However, “Some vehicles were occupied by families, in the presence of minor children,” said the prosecution in a statement. Therefore, Eight complaints were identified, relating to ten victims. Nevertheless, “None of the motorists have been physically abused. However, several are particularly shocked, ”says the judicial institution.

“A victim explains that he was forced to get out of the car. to empty his pockets, which he did, and (the suspects) then left with the vehicle”, which was later found burnt down, notably specified Émilie Abrantes, public procure in Limoges.

Clashes broke out for three hours between the police. equipped with LBD and tear gas, and these masked individuals, also armed with mortar and Molotov cocktails. The scuffles, who stopped around 4 am, made nine injured among the police. Eight of the nine injured agents suffer from tinnitus. the ninth of an injury to one hand, according to the Limoges prosecutor’s office. Saturday evening. the CRS 82 company, based in Saint-Herblain (Loire-Atlantique) and specialized in the “urban guerrilla warfare”, crs deployed, maintenance of order was deployed in the district around 10 p.m., by decision of the Ministry of the Interior.

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Where is the situation this Sunday?

During the night from Saturday to Sunday, calm returned. “Nothing important” occurred during the night. “no reinforcement (has been) dispatched on the spot,” a police source told an AFP correspondent. Some projectile jets and fireworks shots launched at 10:30 p.m. were identified but without injured.

The night was “very quiet” in the neighborhood, confirmed to AFP Laurent Nadeau, departmental secretary of the Alliance police union. Two arrests intervened but “for current cases of Limougeaude nightlife,” he said, confirming information from the radio here.

Why this violence explosion?

The Val de l’Aurrence district is “known” for drug trafficking but “no element allows you to connect this night’s events with a recent investigation” on drug trafficking. also specified the public prosecutor.

In this same area, other violence had broken “urban guerrilla warfare”, crs deployed, out on the night of July 14. Following these clashes. two security operations were carried out Tuesday and Wednesday resulting in inspections of buildings of buildings and controls in the neighborhood, recalls France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

The LR mayor of Limoges. Émile Roger Lombertie, describes this territory as a “district of great poverty with young people from immigration” which, according to him, became “an area of lawlessness”. He also denounced an “urban guerrilla warfare”.

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“They are organized. structured, it is programmed, there is a plan, an armament, an ambush given to the police and road users,” he deplored. And to add: “It is not a spontaneous manifestation to moan against something. There is no pretext. Nothing. There is the desire to destroy and show that the territory belongs to you ”.