The police headquarters announced on Monday that it was strengthening the presence of law enforcement in La Courneuve the day after the attack on the city police station with fireworks and molotov cocktails, a reaction to the death of an 18-year-old young man, you during a collision with a police car.
Sunday shortly before 11 p.m., around fifty people fired fireworks and threw molotov cocktails and stones at the police station, according to a police source. The damage was limited to a cracked window and a few traces of burns.
Following the call for reinforcements, they were dispersed and nine of them were arrested, continued the same source.
There are seven adults, aged 18 to 21, and two minors, according to police chief Laurent Nuez.
The police used, according to the police source, six dispersal grenades, 17 tear gas grenades and carried out around a hundred LBD shots.
The situation began to calm down at 11:30 p.m. Two police officers were slightly injured in the elbow.
In a video filmed from the balcony by a resident and shown by AFP, we can see a group of around ten people throwing projectiles towards the window of the police station, located not far from an enclave city.
Other images broadcast on social networks show groups of people firing fireworks mortars in profusion onto the facade of the police station.
We did this to demand justice for Wanys even if his big brother called for calm, confided a young man, on condition of anonymity, in reference to the Aubervilliers death of a young man from La Courneuve, aged 18, during a chase Wednesday evening with police.
We are not afraid of new attacks, “we are going to secure the entire commune in the coming days,” Mr. Nuez announced to journalists at midday on Monday, after visiting officials at the police station.
According to an AFP journalist on site, the police presence was visible from midday.
According to Mr. Nuez, the police will be “intractable against the riots and urban violence.”
There is clearly a link with what happened in Aubervilliers, I can confirm. A number of attackers were referring to this, he noted.
It is justice that the family needs, along with the country and especially the territory. “Transparency is what is needed to promote the calm, the calm that everyone wants,” declared the communist mayor of La Courneuve Gilles Poux at a press conference.
The parents do not want this to happen, which would only lead to blackening and being a factor of accusation of someone who is the first victim, he added, describing the most total collapse of the relatives of the victim.
Bad image
The town has been the subject of particular attention since the death Wednesday evening Aubervilliers of Wanys R.
The young man on a scooter was chased by the police after a refusal to stop.
In an avenue in Aubervilliers, his two-wheeler was hit by a BAC vehicle called for reinforcement, which was coming in the opposite direction.
The latter deviated from his lane to avoid a vehicle which appeared to be a taxi.
In the collision, Wanys R. was killed and his passenger injured. A video of the drama was widely distributed on social networks and in the media.
The family’s lawyer accused the police on Friday of having deliberately hit him, the police council criticizing an untruth and defending the theory of an accident.
Four months before the Olympic Games, which will take place largely in Seine-Saint-Denis, the traders interviewed by AFP regret the poor image given to their neighborhood.
Even if the Olympic Games don’t concern us, we’re going to get a bad image and that’s not good for business, says a grocery store owner close to the attacked police station.
It’s sad to lose a child but you shouldn’t touch the neighborhood, says Anissa.
For this mother, it is stupidity to destroy our neighborhood. We will have nothing left.
The incidents that occurred in La Courneuve last night are unacceptable. Emotion must not lead to violence, and violence will not bring justice. The police must be able to work peacefully and justice must provide answers to Wanys’ family, wrote on X the president of the department of Seine-Saint-Denis (PS) Stphane Troussel.