This Sunday, 16 people were arrested and 25 police officers were injured on the sidelines of the Plaine carnival in Marseille, according to the Bouches-du-Rhône police headquarters. This political and militant carnival, undeclared to the authorities, is held every year in the district of the city, including at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in 2021, sparking controversy up to the highest level of government.
For this 2023 edition, first in a good-natured atmosphere, the carnival brought together at its strongest 9,000 people, according to the police headquarters. According to this same source, at the end of the evening, the police were victims of projectile throwing.
On Twitter, the deputy mayor of Marseille in charge of security Yannick Ohanessian deplored “unacceptable excesses and damage. »