Several arrests were made on the national territory during the night of Tuesday December 31, 2024 to Monday January 1, 2025 by the approximately 90,000 police officers and gendarmes mobilized on the ground.
The transition to the new year mobilized law enforcement across the national territory. According to figures communicated by the Ministry of the Interior on January 1, 984 vehicles were set on fire, 420 people were arrested and 310 people were taken into custody during the night of Tuesday December 31, 2024 to Monday January 1, 2025.
Bruno Retailleau, the Minister of the Interior, adds that “numerous uses of mortars” were noted by the approximately 90,000 police and gendarmes mobilized for New Year's Eve.
A two-year-old child injured in Lyon
These mortar fire caused injuries. In Lyon, a two-year-old child was injured in the face. He risks “permanent disability”, specifies the Minister of the Interior. In Thonon-les-Bains, a person was treated “in absolute emergency” after handling a mortar shot. In Lormont (Gironde), an apartment was ravaged by a fire caused, again, by a mortar shot.
Among the 420 people arrested, some were “following in particular third parties of mortars directly targeting the internal security forces”, continues Bruno Retailleau, regretting an annual count “always too heavy”.
“This violence is the product of savagery embodied by cowards, thugs who attack the property of often modest French people, who do not have the means to protect their vehicles in private parking lots,” asserts the Minister of the Interior, calling for a judicial response “meet” the facts.
Last year, Gérald Darmanin, then Minister of the Interior, welcomed a New Year's Eve night without a “notable incident” with 690 vehicles set on fire compared to 874 for the transition to the year 2022. The forces of the order had arrested 490 people on New Year's Eve 2023.
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