Almost a thousand people dressed (750 according to the prefecture) marched through the city center during the afternoon before the police do not intervene in the middle of the crowd of walkers weekend -end.
According to the prefecture, at least five people “throwing projectiles at police,” were arrested. Three police vehicles were damaged and slightly wounded a police officer in the head after the spray of a can, said Warden Patrick Strzoda on BFM TV.
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Several loads of gendarmes and CRS have succeeded for two hours in various parts of the Breton capital before the procession is practically dispersed in the late afternoon. Moreover tags and throwing eggs, paint and flour, several windows of downtown were broken, “primarily bank branches and insurance,” said the prefect of the region Strzoda Patrick, while Mayor Nathalie Appéré (PS) condemned “with the utmost firmness the acts of violence and vandalism perpetrated on Saturday afternoon at Rennes.”
the event was declared, it was planned to be friendly and festive, the prefect said. “I set up a system that would ensure a deterrent presence,” particularly around places like City Hall, the Parliament of Brittany and malls of downtown, which was added an order prohibiting the fact wear “objects that can be likened to weapons,” he recalled. “The meal was fine but in the parade, there were tags, window breakage and jets of various projectiles towards the police. Hence the decision to intervene, “he said.
The organizers wanted a good-show
Featuring carnival masks or scarves around the head color variegated or dark clothes, often made-up animals, protesters paraded giant puppets of animals like a cow or an owl, but also a representative of the Prime Minister Manuel Valls armed with a pistol. Accompanied by drums, they chanted “Vinci (Project dealer named airport of Notre Dame des Landes, ed), emerges, resistance and sabotage.”
The parade was reeling around 15 hours behind a banner “When we arrive in town,” referring to a song by Michel Berger interpreted by Daniel Balavoine, after a banquet without incident and music to the Parliament of Britain, with the participation of members of the peasant Confederation. An important police device, with a helicopter flight, framed the event which organizers had stressed their wish that the show remains good child.
After actually threw the flour in the direction of nearby bystanders or journalists, demonstrators threw some eggs, some filled with paint, the police, and tagged some inscriptions. Several windows were broken. The police are then intervened once by heavy fire tear gas, in the commercial district of downtown in the middle of onlookers, walkers family or customers of surrounding stores.
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