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Between 200 and 300 youths held an illegal party in Auvernier NE on Lake Neuchâtel on Sunday night. Many of them were drunk. Objects were thrown at the police. For security reasons, he decided not to intervene.
“The four policemen were thrown into the bottles and food,” a Neuchâtel police spokesman said on local RTN radio. In view of the number of rioters and because many of them were drunk, the police refrained from deploying them for their own safety.
The intervention would have required much greater police involvement. “There will probably be no law enforcement officers since most of the party goers could not be identified,” said the police spokesman.
“It does not bode well for the future”
These young people had acted with some selfishness and did not understand that the instructions related to the coronavirus pandemic still apply despite the relaxation. The revelers would have ignored the restriction of the meeting of a maximum of five people, as well as the rule of distance between two people.
We regret this. That does not bode well for the future. We will have to monitor the situation, “said the police spokesman.