To get out of this “hipster”, which occurred overnight from Sunday to Monday, the police responded with LBD fire and tear gas canisters, before pursuing the suspects in a neighboring city.
A police station in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) was stormed on the night of Sunday July 30 to Monday August 1 by several individuals dressed in black, learned Le Figaro from police sources on Monday, confirming information from our colleagues from Parisian . Twenty people are believed to be involved, according to our information, and three of them have already been arrested.
At around one o’clock in the morning, the group targeted the police station by throwing four molotov cocktails, and firing numerous mortar rounds at the facade of the building. One of the police station’s vehicles has no less than 56 mortar impacts. “It was a wasp“, we are told. To get out of this attack that some consider “coordinate“, the police officers present responded with LBD fire and tear gas canisters.
After repelling the attackers, the agents decide to pursue them in one of the cities located nearby, specifies one of our sources, before being again targeted by “numerous» mortar fire and molotov cocktails.
At the scene of the attack, a homemade device to hold a mortar in the direction of the police station was found hanging on a barrier, we are told. No one was physically injured, but two police officers from the Anti-Crime Squad were arrested for seven days due to tinnitus which occurred during the attack. Investigations are continuing to find the perpetrators.