A policeman in Argenteuil in the Val-d’Oise. – NICOLAS MESSYASZ / SIPA
Cars were set on fire and mortar fireworks targeted the police on the night of Monday to Tuesday in a city in Argenteuil (Val-d’Oise), where violence broke out, announced police sources.
Videos posted on social media show vehicles engulfed in flames, some of them overturned on the roof. Firefighters intervened to extinguish these fires.
A white march for Sabri on Saturday
Many fireworks mortar fire targeted the security forces deployed on the spot, without injuring, said a police source. This episode of tension takes place in the Val d’Argent, a vast working-class district regularly the scene of urban violence, in this city located north-west of Paris.
It is in this city that resided Sabri, who died a year ago to the day on May 17, 2020, without any link being established at this stage between this tragedy and the violence. The 18-year-old died in a motorcycle accident near a police car in a nearby neighborhood.
The investigation was closed, the investigations confirming “the absence of intervention by a third party in the accident”, according to the Pontoise prosecutor’s office. His relatives remain convinced that the Bac (anti-crime brigade) bears responsibility for the accident and have requested the opening of a judicial investigation. A white march in his memory is also scheduled for Saturday.