Tag: Miscellaneous Lyon news
After twenty hours spent in freezing water, a septuagenarian miraculously survives
We can speak of a miracle. A 71-year-old woman was found alive after spending twenty hours in the water of the Doubs, reports Progress. She had fallen into the river…
Two-year-old dies after falling from 7th floor of building
He didn’t survive. A two-year-old boy, who fell last Saturday from his family’s apartment, on the 7th floor of a building in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, “unfortunately died”, the Lyon prosecutor’s…
The beaten teenager had filed a complaint of rape against the brother of one of her attackers
The teenager, who was beaten up in Lyon and whose attack was broadcast on social networks, had filed a complaint for rape against the minor brother of one of the…
Investigation opened after the violent attack on a teenager broadcast on social networks
Since Thursday afternoon, the video has been circulating virally on social networks. We see, for fifty seconds, a young girl being very violently attacked in a sort of basement of…
Three Lyon supporters in police custody
Three Lyon supporters were arrested on Tuesday and placed in police custody in Marseille as part of one of three investigations opened into the incidents which led to the postponement…
Eight people in police custody after banned ultra-right demonstration
Monday evening, around a hundred people wandered on the peninsula, in the center of Lyon, before being dispersed by the police. This demonstration organized by the ultra-right (police term for…
Fifteen arrests for drug trafficking after a large police operation
Nearly 200 police officers from the Rhône Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP), a Raid unit, another from CRS 83 and several dog teams. This Monday morning, a vast judicial…
Lyonnais, what are your memories of Gérard Collomb? What do you think of his twenty years in office?
He had made the Capital of Gaul his stronghold. Deputy for Rhône between 1981 and 1988, district mayor then mayor of the city for almost twenty years, Gérard Collomb dedicated…
Woman dies after falling several floors from her home
The events took place on Wednesday evening, around 9 p.m. A woman in her forties died after falling several floors from her building in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, reports News Lyon.…
The gathering of a small far-right group banned by the prefecture in Lyon
The prefect of Rhône Fabienne Buccio banned the gathering planned for this Wednesday evening at 7 p.m., in Lyon, in tribute to Thomas, this 16-year-old teenager, killed this weekend in…