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Company: More than 400 young people clashed with the police force for a second consecutive night after the death of two teenagers Thursday.
New night of violence to Clichy-under-woodby AFPLIBERATION.FR: Saturday October 29, 2005 - 09:15 New consecutive urban violences with the death of two teenagers Thursday burst with Clichy-under-Wood Friday evening, a real ball having in particular been drawn on a vehicle from CRS. "a van (where CRS were) was the subject of a shooting", indicated during a point of press the departmental director of public safety Jacques Méric. More than 400 troublemakers on the whole had mesh to leave with the police force, it specified. Deux-cent fifty to three hundred police officers and gendarmes were deployed on the spot. Seven police officers were slightly wounded, and nine people were placed in police custody. Vingt-neuf vehicles and ten dustbins were set fire to, apparently with the assistance of hydrocarbons according to firemen's of the Brigade of the Firemen of Paris, who started the urban "turbid" plan towards 21h15. The firemen intervened forty times. The prefect Jean-François Cordet went to the site. The disorders mainly proceeded in the district of thePointed one, which had already been Thursday evening the theatre of violent one confrontations between young people and police force. The city had blazed up following the death of two teenagers of 17 and 15 years, Ziad and Banou, died electrocuted after having been introduced into the enclosure of a transformer EDF. The rumour had been spread that the two young people had taken refuge in this place following a race-continuation with the police force, which was contradicted by the prefecture. The disorders of Friday started little after 21 hours. According to Joaquin Masanet of the trade union of police officers UNSA, approximately 80 young people of Oak-Pointed were caught some with CRS "on mission of securisation" and started to throw projectiles and kingpins on the police force, before drawing a shot against a vehicle where CRS were. "We tried to negotiate with certain young people but they had the will of in découdre", explained the first mayor associates Olivier Klein, present at the height confrontations. Little after midnight calms it had returned. Calcined wrecks and dustbins on fire continued to smoke out the city, under the attentive œil of the inhabitants. "I failed to take a rubber ball to me. It was a true scene of guerrilla. I saw small who had received a ball, it seemed to suffer much ", testified Rachid, 26 years. A walk in homage to the two victims will proceed Saturday starting from 9H30. The departure is envisaged in front of the Clichy-under-Wood town hall. |