Police were attacked late Monday afternoon in Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d’Oise) by fifty people, learns 20 minutes from a police source. A patrol of the BST – a unit mobilized in the fight against wild rodeos – is dispatched to a district of the city to apprehend the driver of a motocross who had been spotted. Arrived on the scene, the agents discover the two-wheeler stopped. Nearby, they spot four men in a car.
One of them tries to flee while the officials, who had got out of their car to arrest him, are subject to projectiles. About fifty people showing signs of hostility gather around the police who receive punches in the face and ribs. The reinforcements arrived on the spot allow them to get out of this bad situation. Four people, aged 19 to 20, were arrested. Among them, three are already known to their service. An investigation was opened, entrusted to the Sarcelles police station.