In Grenoble riots broke out after a fatal accident with a police chase

In Grenoble riots broke out after a fatal accident with a police chase

Source: AFP

KIEV. March 5. UNN. The loss of young people during police chase after them was the cause of the riots that broke out in Grenoble area “Mistral” (France) in the night of 3 March and lasted until 4 March. It is reported by UNN with reference to the RFI.

According to police, the riots were attended by about a hundred young people. They threw Molotov cocktails the local barracks of the riot police CRS. During the riots were burned 15 cars committed attempted arson of a number of municipal buildings.

The French Prosecutor’s office of Grenoble on March 4 opened a criminal case into the death of two young men during a police pursuit last weekend.

Saturday’s fatal crash was the cause of the riots that two nights continued in the area of “Mistral”, where the dead lived.

March 3 evening, the Prosecutor of Grenoble Eric Vayan met with relatives of the boys 17 and 19 years, who died yesterday in a traffic accident. Young people on a scooter with no lights and no license plates tried to escape from pursuing their police car. According to the Prosecutor, the boys were riding without helmets, at high speed, skipping intersections on a red light. During the prosecution of scooter collided with a bus at the interchange at the exit to the freeway.

According to the testimony of the bus driver seeing in the rear view mirror of the scooter and followed him to the police car, he began to pull over to the right side to skip forward. However, young men on a scooter decided to overtake the bus on the right and got in a car accident, said the Prosecutor, explaining that the scooter was wedged between a bus and a road barrier.

Eric Vayan reported that the collision of a scooter with a police vehicle was not, and tests of bus driver alcohol and drugs were negative.

Recall that in the 16th Saturday the mobilization of movement participants “yellow jackets” in France, the protests reached more than 39 thousand people, of which 4 thousand in the capital. In Paris detained 33 people.