Nine people, including two minors, have been arrested after a group of about 50 people attacked a police station near the Paris 2024 Olympic village with heavy-duty rocket fireworks, the French capital’s top police official has said.
The attack on Sunday evening in La Courneuve followed the death last Wednesday of a teenager after a police chase. Authorities announced a reinforced police presence across the northern Paris suburb.
“Police have a strong presence there today and that will be even more the case during the Olympics, when we will have a massive presence everywhere in the Paris region, and I have no fear on that level,” the Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, said on Monday.
Riots Again in France…
Mortars, Molotov Cocktails, Police Station Attacked Following the Death of a Young Convicted Criminal Fleeing Authorities
On March 13, 2024, in Aubervilliers, France, 18-year-old Wanys R., with an Algerian background, collided with the La Courneuve… pic.twitter.com/sJXSaBJ7gD
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) March 18, 2024
Had this happened in Canada a royal commission would be called. In France it’s just another day at work. We will be France one day.
