Riots in Tarterêts: caught in an ambush, a damaged police van – archyde

The calm did not last two days in a row at Tarterêts. After the riots from this Thursday to this Monday evening, a new incident took place in the district of Corbeil-Essonnes this Wednesday around 6:45 pm While he was patrolling alone in the district, a van was expected on rue Cézanne by about thirty masked, hooded and gloved individuals who were hid in the bushes.

The attackers targeted the van with fireworks mortars, cobblestones and molotov cocktails, said a police source. One of these incendiary bottles hit the front of the van, without the fire spreading. Inside the vehicle, officers retaliated with their defensive bullet launchers and used their de-encirclement grenades.

In order to escape quickly, the driver reversed. In his maneuver, he struck two cars parked in the street, which had the effect of tearing a door of the van. No police officer was injured and no arrest took place, said a police source.

A video of the attack circulated on social networks in the early evening on Wednesday. We see the young people shouting “come on, come on! “, ” Again ! », And laugh at the escape of the agents. The Evry-Courcouronnes police station, on which Corbeil-Essonnes depends, was seized.

Around 7 p.m., a CRS company arrived to secure the neighborhood. Tear gas once again invaded the Tarterêts. “They gassed the whole park, while there were no more young people, just mothers,” laments a resident.

“When the CRS are there, we can see that calm has been restored, it is a problem of staffing, insists Claude Carillo, of the Alliance 91 police union. This problem, the agglomeration reform in Essonne did not have. not settled. We need permanent reinforcements. “