The incidents began around 10 p.m., when “around twenty individuals” stoned two buses from the Lyon Public Transport company before setting them on fire.
Urban violence broke out on Friday evening in Rillieux-La-Pape, near Lyon, for the second night in a row, with buses set on fire and projectiles fired at the police, AFP learned from the prefecture .
The incidents began around 10 p.m., when “around twenty individuals” stoned two buses from the Transports en commun Lyonnais (TCL) company before setting them on fire.
The police who arrived to intervene were fired upon by projectiles and a police officer was slightly injured in the face, the prefecture said. The situation “is frozen”we added from the same source around 11:00 p.m., and the prefect Fabienne Buccio went there.
On video images published on social networks, we could see the carcasses of two buses engulfed in flames, on a lane reserved for them, emitting heavy black smoke, near residential buildings.
Thursday evening, incidents had already taken place in Rillieux-La-Pape. Several cars and trash cans were set on fire and three people were arrested.
