The police responded with a press release. She clarified that “around 3:22 p.m., dozens of people, some of them hooded, sought confrontation with the police, which compromised public safety“. It specifies that pyrotechnic material was used, projectiles launched, sticks used, a traffic light destroyed, that a fire was caused on the public road, that a front occupant vehicle was surrounded on the Boulevard Lemonnier and that a journalist was injured in the face by fireworks.
The police at “it was then decided to proceed with an intervention, with the deployment of the sprinkler and tear gas“.
