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the death of a man in police custody provokes several nights of urban violence

the death of a man in police custody provokes several nights of urban violence
the death of a man in police custody provokes several nights of urban violence

An investigation by the public prosecutor’s office is continuing to shed light on the circumstances of the death of this man, well known to the justice system, and suffering from serious mental illness, at the police station on December 10.

Nights of tension in Hauts-de-Seine. Several municipalities were the scene of urban violence, in response to the death of a 34-year-old man, while in police custody in the Bagneux police station, on December 10, we learned Le Figaro from police sources. The individual had been taken there the previous Sunday, as part of a preliminary investigation by the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office for drug trafficking, carried out by the Territorial Security.

In the Blagis district, in Fontenay-aux-Roses – where the individual was from – but also in the neighboring towns of , Châtillon, , le Plessis-Robinson and Sceaux, an escalation of violence occurred shortly after. little settled in, every evening, after the death of the one his loved ones call «Baba»until a peak during the night from Thursday to Friday. Mortars were fired upon by police on patrol, trash cans were set on fire during brief spontaneous gatherings, and access to certain streets was obstructed by barricades. 

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