A 67-year-old man was arrested near the Bercy Park after injured two people on site. An investigation was opened from the head of “homicide attempt”.
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A 67-year-old man was arrested Wednesday, December 8 in the morning near the Bercy Park, in the 12 e Arrondissement de Paris and placed in custody by the second judicial police district . It is strongly suspected of being the individual who has lacerated several tents of a camp occupied by migrants, mainly men alone of Sudanese origin, located behind the Accor Arena’s auditorium. On this occasion, two people present on the premises were injured.
These two wounded were briefly hospitalized at pity and salpêtriere in the day, their days are not in danger. The man is “very unfavorably known to police services”, according to a police source and has already been challenged for attempted homicide. The reasons are not specified at this stage.
Insecurity climate
An investigation was opened from the homicide attempt, indicates the parquet of Paris. According to Ian Brossat, Deputy Mayor of Refugee Housing and Protection, the man would have given the words “against foreigners”, information that neither the police nor the interviewees on the spot are able to confirm.
“This attack is the result of a liberation of the racist speech,” said Brossat, who said consider strengthening the city’s services maruras, in particular the union of assistance without -Abris. The “camp” of the Bercy Park was previously occupied by families supported by the Utopia 56 Association before it decides, “several weeks ago” according to one of its officials, to leave the places Due to a growing climate of insecurity.