Night stand 24 custody for violence – Le Figaro

The authorities took several hours to dislodge hundreds of people who refused to leave the Republic Square after the rally.

the rally was authorized until midnight but the authorities took several hours to disperse hundreds of people who refused to leave on the night of Thursday to Friday, the Place de la Republique in Paris. Twenty-seven people were arrested and 24 placed shot jets custody on police, violence and damage after the dispersion of Night standing, announced the police headquarters.

at 1:50, “a hundred particularly virulent and mobile demonstrators forced the barrage set Avenue Republic square causing many damages,” said the prefecture. The security forces say have been the target of shots, especially from a concrete block cut and chisel hammer by individuals, until 3:30, and have responded by using tear gas. “We counted no injuries, nor the side of the police or the demonstrators,” added the police headquarters, adding that in custody will the “purpose of prosecution.” It further refers windows degradations and motorbikes and two vehicles burned.

unidentified factions Some had called in recent days on social networks “to better occupy the premises,” ” with barricades, “at the end of the demonstration against the labor law Thursday afternoon. Several times in the evening, some young, turning around the place, threw glass bottles at the police. CRS and gendarmes were blocking the exits of the square, preventing any departure “wild procession.” Such spontaneous demonstrations, sometimes interspersed with incidents were regularly held on the sidelines of Night standing since the beginning of the movement on 31 March.

On Thursday morning, the Paris police prefecture had made an order banning processions starting from the Republic Square and the parking light vehicles and the distribution of music in the night from Thursday to Friday “for reasons of safety and to ensure public tranquility near the place of the rally.” Police headquarters also recalled “the organizers and participants of the need not to install structures other than those specified in the event of declaration” and “respect scrupulously the end time of declaration of the rally, ie midnight to dispersion and storage facilities. “