Posted on 04/20/2020 4:34:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris (AFP) - Police fought running battles overnight in Paris's low-income northern suburbs with residents alleging heavy-handedness by officers enforcing France's strict coronavirus lockdown.
Residents burned trash and cars and shot fireworks at police, who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas in the suburbs of Villeneuve-la-Garenne and Aulnay-sous-Bois, witnesses and police said on Monday.
The tensions were ignited in the early hours of Saturday when a motorcyclist was injured during a police check in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, prompting about 50 angry bystanders to gather.
A police statement said the group targeted officers with "projectiles" in a near two-hour standoff.
The motorcyclist, 30, was hospitalised with a broken leg and had to undergo surgery after he had crashed into the open door of a police car.
Residents allege the door was opened deliberately so that the rider would smash into it.
The man will lodge a complaint against the officers, his family and a lawyer told AFP, while prosecutors have opened an investigation.
By Monday morning, calm had returned to Villeneuve-la-Garenne after a second night of riots marked by suburban fires and explosions, an AFP journalist observed.
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Muzzies gone wild?
I wonder what sort of “residents”?
suburbs = no-go zones/banlieues
residents = jihadis
“low-income northern suburbs” = euphemism for Muslims.
I bet the same area had more than their share of torched cars back when that was going on.
Macron is saved from the yellow vests. Convenient for him and the Chicoms in Hong Kong.
How long till CNN runs those pictures and labels them as being Denver?
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