- New Year's Eve: Thirty arrests and four police officers injured in the Bas-Rhin.
New Year's Eve: Thirty arrests and four police officers injured in the Bas-Rhin.
Thirty people were arrested in the Bas-Rhin and four police officers slightly injured on New Year's Eve.
Sad outcome for a night of celebration in the Bas-Rhin. The night of New Year's Eve was indeed marred by urban violence with around thirty arrests. Four police officers were slightly injured. In addition, "87 vehicles" were set on fire throughout the police area of the department, mostly in Strasbourg and its metropolitan area, according to a police source.
25 arrests
The 25 arrests for urban violence, mainly in the Strasbourg metropolitan area where this violence recurs almost every year on New Year's Eve, relate to "vehicle fires", "garbage cans" and "damage", according to the prefecture.
New Year's Eve was marked by "strong activity", the prefecture had indicated on New Year's Eve, which referred to the use by the police of "grenades" in the Strasbourg district of Hautepierre "to respond to mortar fire. and disperse people ”. Six minors under 16 were also fined for not having respected the curfew established on New Years Eve by a prefectural decree in Strasbourg and six neighboring municipalities, according to the prefecture.
Clashes
In Lingolsheim, near Strasbourg, a man was "quickly arrested" after having fired "on a BAC vehicle with a mortar", according to a tweet from the national police of Bas-Rhin. In Schiltigheim, a town bordering the Alsatian capital, "a party organized with 200 to 300 people" was also observed in a "sublet" restaurant.
"Mortar fire at police officers" also took place in the parking lot of a supermarket in Schiltigheim, according to a police source. "Individuals come into confrontation (...) None of the measures taken are respected, the curfew for minors, the wearing and use of fireworks, nothing is respected," she lamented.
In Bas-Rhin alone, six mobile force units, or 360 officials, were mobilized for New Year's Eve, as well as about 400 police officers and a "hundred" soldiers from Operation Sentinel, the prefect, Josiane had detailed on Wednesday. Knight. Across the department, a total of 1,950 police, firefighters and soldiers were at work, she said.