Last year, the riots following Nahel’s death turned into controversy between the FO union and the City of Lyon.
The first accused the green town hall of having given instructions to the municipal police officers to stay hidden at the Town Hall, or to monitor the Entre Rhône et Saône festival. While the Presqu’île was ravaged by groups of young people who were looting the shops.
Are we heading towards a new episode putting Grégory Doucet in difficulty? Because according to several sources, including a union, the City of Lyon has only planned to deploy 15 municipal police officers on the streets of the capital of Gaul this Sunday evening, while there is a significant risk of riots when the results of the first round of the legislative elections are announced.
Information that the town hall denies to Le Progrès, mentioning a larger police presence than announced, without however wanting to give precise figures.
The dilemma for Grégory Doucet is that to mobilize municipal police officers on Sundays after 8 p.m., they must be requisitioned.
It remains to be seen whether the GOM agents will find themselves alone in having to protect the central town hall, or whether they will benefit from reinforcements to cover more ground, whether in Presqu’île or on the banks of the Rhône where the Entre Rhône et Saône festival is taking place.
For its part, the Rhône prefecture did not take the threat of excesses from the ultra-left lightly. The CRS 83 will be mobilized, with more than 200 national police officers as reinforcements in the urban area, in addition to the usual numbers.
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