One hundred and thirty-six people were arrested in Paris on the sidelines of the New Year festivities and 104 placed in police custody, the capital's prosecutor's office said on Wednesday, requested by AFP.
Of the 104, 36 had their custody extended on Wednesday evening, 13 were summoned to court and 20 presented to a magistrate, “several” of whom must be tried on Thursday in immediate appearance, detailed the public prosecutor.
According to a police source, people were arrested in Paris during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday for burglary, or for throwing projectiles and possessing fireworks near the Bir-Hakeim bridge, in the 15th arrondissement. . “Two police vehicles were set on fire, without injuries,” added the prosecution.
“Ensauvagement”
Taking into account the three departments of the inner suburbs (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne), 208 arrests were made and six members of the police lightly injured in the urban area. Parisian, according to the police headquarters, which however recorded “no serious event”.
Earlier in the evening, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau castigated “a savagery embodied by cowards, thugs”, with 984 vehicles set on fire and 420 arrests in France, 310 of which led to police custody.
More than 90,000 police officers and gendarmes, according to the minister, were mobilized in the country, including 10,000 in Paris and its inner suburbs, to supervise the New Year festivities.
Five months after the euphoria of the Olympic Games, Paris once again wore bright clothes on Tuesday evening for the transition to the new year. More than a million people gathered on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées, closed to vehicles and lined with dozens of glittering trees.
