Three young people appeared before the Criminal Court, Friday, for participation in a rodeo, on October 23rd. The nebulous collective, which has multiplied the provocations for three months in the metropolis, denounces “the constant pressure of the police”.
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Arrested in Bron (Rhône), during a rodeo initiated by the group says “Dalton”, three young people from 8 e district of Lyon, aged 19 and 20, Have been sentenced by the Capital Court of the Capital of Gaul, Friday, November 26, to sentences ranging from six months from suspended prison to twelve months, including six farm.
They had participated in a rodeo, conducted on October 23 by thirty individuals, including two disguised with the yellow and black outfit of the Brothers Dalton, become the trademark of a nebulous collective, originally, For three months, a series of proteoformeal provocations in the Lyon region.
Consisting of several machines, motorcycles and quads, the convoy was intercepted by about thirty police officers, including thirteen motorcyclists of the motorized public safety brigade. Following the three arrests, the departmental security investigators seized five two wheels, as well as a drone and a shot weapon, found during a search.
In four months, the judicial authorities opened seven investigations, a nine arrest process for six convictions. According to a police commissioner, “from ten to twenty individuals” constitute the hard core of the Dalton, to which the occasional participants, unpredictably. “Where is the truth, the false? We do not know where the border is”, describes Mohamed Chihi, Deputy Mayor of Lyon in charge of public tranquility. Police officers have harder tooth. “Little neighborhood thugs highlighted by the media”, summarizes a senior official.
The Bron episode has been a turning point. The Minister of the Interior welcomed the police operation in a tweet from October 23rd. “No impunity against urban rodeos that rot the lives of the inhabitants of certain neighborhoods,” wrote Gérald Darmanin, joining his message a photo showing an individual disguised in dalton plated on the ground. Which did not help calm the spirits. On their Instagram account, the animators of the Dalton group replied by placing the face of the minister on the character of Lucky Luke. “He catches one, there are ten more. It’s exponential, it will never stop,” a spokesman on the social network, in a backbag, masked face and modified voice. Gérald Darmanin requested, without success, closing their Instagram account.
A “provocative” spirit
Six days after the ministerial tweet, four individuals at the handlebars of powerful scooters and a painted yellow and black motorcycle turned on the Bellecour square, emblematic pedestrian sector of the capital of Gaul. Faced with the outcry, the group sought to modify its image. On November 4, an individual in Dalton held crossed by laughing the Lawn of the Groupama Stadium, during the OL-Prague football match.
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