The prefecture has identified a “strong activity” during the Night of New Year’s Eve in some areas of the Alsatian capital. Two policemen were slightly injured.
Le Monde
The Night of New Year’s Eve is marked by urban violence in Strasbourg where twelve people were arrested, and two slightly injured police officers announced on Saturday 1 January, the prefecture and the police. A prefectural decree had been taken for the night of December 31 to January 1, a curfew for minors under the age of 16 unaccompanied by a parent in the Alsatian capital and in six neighboring municipalities.
There is a “strong activity”, said 0:30 to the France-Presse Agence the prefecture, according to which the police made “grenade use” in the popular district of Hautepierre ” To respond to mortar shots and disperse people “. “So far, 12 people have been arrested, four as part of urban violence”, indicated on Twitter the Bas-Rhin police. “We deplore 2 policemen slightly wounded by jets of firecrackers and a degraded police vehicle but we will remain mobilized, stronger than ever!”, She also tweeted around 01:20.
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In Lingolsheim, on the outskirts of the Alsatian capital, a man was “quickly arrested” after shooting “on a vehicle of the tray with a mortar”, according to the same source. Vehicles have been burned in several neighborhoods, indicated another police source.
“An organized party with 200 to 300 people” was found in a “subserned” restaurant in Schiltigheim, near Strasbourg. “Mortars on police officers” have also taken place in the parking lot of a supermarket in this commune on the periphery, according to the same source.
“Individuals come to the confrontation, there is a very big mistrust against the police, a desire to fight. None of the measures taken is respected, the curfew of the minors, The port and the use of artifices, nothing is respected, “lamented this source.
Six mobile forces units (UFM), or 360 officials, are mobilized for the Night of the New Year, as well as nearly 400 policemen and a “hundred” of the military of the Sentinel operation, had detailed, Wednesday, the Prefect of Bas-Rhin, Josiane Chevalier. On the whole department, a total of 1,950 policemen, firefighters and military, according to Ms. Chevalier.
Four prefectural decrees have also been taken recently, including the prohibiting the sale and use of firecrackers and fireworks, very popular in Alsace and in the neighboring Germany during the New Year’s Eve where they cause Yet many wounds or mutilations. Last year, a young man was dead, his head snatched by a mortar.