Two TCL buses were set on fire in the La Velette district of Rillieux-la-Pape, near Lyon (Rhône), the Rhône prefecture told the Radio France agency on Friday, November 1. After receiving several stab wounds in Rennes, the young man went alone to the hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
There is an air of rising tension in certain sensitive neighborhoods. This is the second night in a row that violence has occurred in this town near Lyon. Due to these incidents, TCL network buses will no longer serve the Velette district until November 11 inclusive.
Around 7 p.m. on Friday, police intervened in the Velette district to stop a wild barbecue on the public highway. A heated arrest followed, says a source close to the matter at Agence Radio France. A few hours later, around 9 p.m., on the same avenue du Général Leclerc, buses were blocked, stoned and set on fire by around twenty individuals. For fear of the flames spreading, residents of an adjacent building were evacuated, before returning to their apartment.
A police officer slightly injured
At the same time, the police deployed on site came under projectile fire. One of them suffered a minor head injury and was taken to hospital. Calm returned around 11 p.m. after CRS were sent to reinforce the area. The delegated prefect for defense and security visited the site, accompanied by the mayor of the town, Alexandre Vincendet. Shortly before midnight on Friday, the Rhône prefecture clarified on the social network “will be mobilized this weekend alongside the national police and municipal police”.
19-year-old killed in Rennes
In Rennes, a 19-year-old man died on Saturday November 2 after receiving stab wounds in the lobby of a building late in the afternoon, the Ille-et-Vilaine public prosecutor said in France Televisions. The events occurred near a drug deal point, Boulevard de Verdun, France Télévisions learned from a police source.
With the help of acquaintances, the young man then went to a nearby hospital, where he died from his injuries. The prosecutor confirms to franceinfo that he was known to the courts for drug cases.
The death of this young man comes a week after a 5-year-old child was seriously injured in the head by gunfire in Pacé, near Rennes, in a shooting linked to drug trafficking. For this case, an investigation was opened for “attempted homicide by an organized gang”. Friday, traveling to Rennes, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau called for the establishment of a “new legislative arsenal” pour “hit the wallet” trafficking networks.
With Francetvinfo
