Four police cars were set on fire during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday October 9 in front of the Cavaillon police station, in Vaucluse. The Minister of the Interior believes that this attack is “a new illustration of the drift that our country is facing”.
Bruno Retailleau announced this Wednesday, October 9, the arrival of the Minister for Security, Nicolas Daragon, in Cavaillon (Vaucluse) as well as the dispatch in the evening of the CRS 81 after the fire in the night of four police vehicles in front of the city police station. Traveling to Luxembourg for a meeting of European Ministers of Justice and the Interior, Bruno Retailleau estimated in a press release that “the attack on the Cavaillon police station (was) a new illustration of the drift that our country is facing”.
“A few days ago, a vast anti-drug operation dismantled a network of traffickers and it is this operation which seems to be at the origin of last night’s events”added the Minister of the Interior. “The State will not allow itself to be intimidated and we will intensify our fight against drug banditry. I will place the fight against organized crime at the center of my concerns because it constitutes an attack on our institutions”also wrote the minister.
The CRS 81, which will be on site in the evening, is a variation in the south of the CRS 8 unit, created by Gérald Darmanin, to fight against urban violence in particular. The investigation was entrusted to the organized and specialized crime division of Avignon on the charge of “destruction, deterioration or degradation of property by means dangerous to people, committed due to the quality of the person holding the authority public”.
“Retaliation for police action”
Four police cars were set on fire during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in front of the Cavaillon police station. The interdepartmental director of the national police, Emmanuel Desjars de Keranrouë estimated that the action probably fell under “retaliation for police action” against drug trafficking in this town of just over 25,000 inhabitants. As part of this “clearance” operation in recent weeks, 25 people have been taken into police custody, “20,000 euros seized, 15 kilos of cannabis, 6 kilos of cocaine, around ten weapons, long weapons, handguns also seized”he declared.
“It happened at 4:50 this morning […] they (the three police officers present, editor’s note) were terrorized”said for his part the departmental deputy of the Alliance police union, Grégory Lorient. There was no damage inside the police station and no injuries were reported. None of the three officials present were injured and “the five individuals who were in police custody in the police station jails were transferred to the Avignon police headquarters”indicated the Vaucluse prefecture in a press release.
