Security: a quiet New Year’s Eve in France

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The New Year’s Eve celebrations were rather quiet this Saturday evening in France. According to Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, there were 490 arrests and 690 burned vehicles this Saturday evening in France. Here are the details of the facts noted in the major French cities.

The vast police force made it possible to limit the scuffles. Regularly marked by overflows, the New Year’s Eve celebrations were rather calm this Saturday evening in France.

On the sidelines of a trip to Mayotte, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin address the results of the night of December 31 in France. For this evening announced as tense, nearly 90,000 police and gendarmes were mobilized throughout France.

In total, 490 arrests were recorded on the territory, or “11% more than last year”, according to the minister. On the other hand, the number of burnt vehicles fell compared to last year, with 690 cars destroyed this Saturday evening against 874 a year earlier.

Here are in detail the various overflows identified in major French cities, according to sources close to the files contacted by CNEWS:

Paris and its little crown

The Paris police headquarters confirmed in a press release published this Sunday the arrest of 234 people for common law offenses in the capital and in the inner suburbs. For this New Year’s Eve, 5,400 police and gendarmes were mobilized in this vast perimeter.

In detail, nine individuals were arrested in the 7e district of Paris for participating in a group formed to commit violence.

In Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), six people were arrested, including two young people aged 12, after an attack with fireworks against the police. Four vehicles were also set on fire in the city during this New Year’s Eve.

Strasbourg

In Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), 40 people were arrested, mainly for possession of fireworks mortars and 57 vehicles were set on fire.

Three gendarmes and a policeman were slightly injured in the city.

Nantes

In Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), 11 arrests were totaled during New Year’s Eve. At the same time, 19 cars were destroyed by the flames.

Istres

In Istres (Bouches-du-Rhône), five people were arrested on the grounds of damage to vehicles by fire during the night from Saturday to Sunday.

Toulouse

Wanting to flee at the sight of the police, a man hit a policeman in the tibia and ankle with his scooter in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), before being arrested.

Metz

At the administrative detention center in Metz (Moselle), a riot broke out around 5:30 p.m., on the initiative of around 80 individuals. They set fire to mattresses and tore up cobblestones from the yard. Three of them were arrested and calm returned around 8:40 p.m.

Tourcoing

This Saturday around 8 p.m., a 29-year-old woman, asking two young people to make less noise in the lobby of their building in Tourcoing (North), was hit several times in the face.

It is the police who can carry out the checks. [Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP]

A broken nose was diagnosed for the latter and the two young people, aged 17, were arrested.


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