Six teenagers and an adult have been arrested following damage to stores in Lausanne, inspired by riots in France, Swiss police said on Sunday. It is stone throwing and window smashing, police said. The young people are said to have gathered after a “call broadcast on social networks”.
Six teenagers and an adult have been arrested following damage to stores in Lausanne, inspired by riots in France, Swiss police said on Sunday. It is stone throwing and window smashing, police said.
“Calls broadcast on social networks”
“Echoing the events and riots that are raging in France, more than a hundred young people gathered in downtown Lausanne and caused damage to businesses. Seven people were arrested”, indicated the police of Lausanne. Lausanne in a statement.
These degradations are “following several calls broadcast on social networks”, according to the same source. “On numerous occasions, the police officers had to disperse the young people, hooded, aggressive, throwing cobblestones and a Molotov cocktail at them”, but none were injured, underlines the police.
On the side of France, several cities were affected by a fifth night of violence, even if the situation was considered “calmer” by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. However, on the night of Saturday to Sunday, the home of Vincent Jeanbrun, mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, was attacked by ram car.