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Burning cars and arrests in the Paris suburbs
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Fourth consecutive night of riots in Paris
Conflicts between the police and youth re-emerged in Paris. Several cars caught fire. The tense situation is exacerbated by the crisis in the crown.
A case of alleged police violence has caused riots in France. Despite Corona’s exit restrictions, youth protesters have been in conflict with officials ever since. Molotov cocktails even flew in Alsace.
TDespite tight exit restrictions in the wake of the Corona crisis, media outbursts have re-erupted in several Paris suburbs overnight.
Police officers fired fireworks at the youths, as images from various internet services showed Wednesday night. According to the newspaper “Le Parisien”, there were several arrests.
Burning cars were also seen. The scene was high-rise housing developments in Clichy, Villeneuve-la-Garenne and Nanterre.
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The riots began after a motorcyclist was injured over the weekend. The man’s leg was seriously injured Saturday when he crashed his machine into the open door of an unmarked police car.
Police said the man was traveling too fast and was not wearing a helmet. The police opened the door to control the man.
Several witnesses claimed that the door was deliberately opened to arrest the man. There was also a video on social media that showed the man screaming in pain. The motorcyclist is said to have filed a complaint against unknown persons, as reported by “Le Parisien”.
There are always riots in Alsace
The incidents bring back memories of 2005, when there were riots in a Paris suburb for several weeks. At the time, two teens had died trying to escape from the police.
Officials in Paris were also fired
Source: AFP
Several arrests were also made in the urban area of the Alsace metropolis of Strasbourg, as reported by local media. According to this, several garbage cans and a vehicle had previously been set on fire in the Port du Rhin district.
In Meinau, two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the wall of the police station house. Tensions are mounting in some parts of the city, Robert Herrmann, deputy mayor of Strasbourg, told France Bleu radio station.
These were the first such incidents in the urban area since the start of France’s strict exit restrictions in mid-March.
