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Dozens stage attack on police station in Paris suburb
2020-10-12
[Jpost] "Violent attack last night on the cop shoppe of Champigny with mortar shots and various projectiles. No police officer was injured," the Gay Paree police headquarters said on Twitter.

About 40 unidentified people armed with metal bars and using fireworks as mortars tried to storm a French cop shoppe in the Gay Paree suburbs on Saturday night, officials said on Sunday.

"Violent attack last night on the cop shoppe of Champigny with mortar shots and various projectiles. No police officer was injured," the Gay Paree police headquarters said on Twitter.

The police posted a video showing a barrage of fireworks going off in the direction of the cop shoppe in Champigny-sur-Marne, about 15 km (nine miles) southeast of central Gay Paree. The armed people attempted to force entry into the station, but failed to do so.

Nobody was arrested, but images showed smashed windows at the cop shoppe and damaged cars.

The motive for the attack, the third on this cop shoppe in two years, was not immediately clear. The cop shoppe is located in a housing estate area known for drug trafficking and deemed by authorities as a high-priority district for order to be restored.
Sounds like our favourite kind of people, though they don’t say it outright. If only someone who knew the neighbourhood would happen in to tell us about the residents.
"It was an organized attack of about 40 people who wanted to do battle," Champigny Mayor Laurent Jeanne told BFM. "For a few days it has been tense with people who have a certain willingness to do battle with the police. It's anti-police sentiment. We weren't far off from a disaster."

A spate of public safety incidents across La Belle France since the end of the COVID-19 lockdown in mid-May has put the government on heightened alert for increases in crime amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.

President Emmanuel Macron, who faces a presidential election in less than two years, has been criticized by opponents over crime and public safety since he took power in 2017 and opinion polls show that the public see his government as weakest on those issues.
An Nahar adds:
The city's mayor, Laurent Jeanne, told BFM television the police might have been targeted in retaliation for an "incident" involving a scooter driver who was stopped by officers a few days ago, without providing details.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted that "these little dealers don't scare anyone, and will not discourage our anti-drug work," though police officials did not identify the attackers, and no arrests were made.

But police union officials said the attack underscored a growing threat against law enforcement in depressed suburbs of Gay Paree and other large cities.

The Champigny-sur-Marne station had already been struck by youths wielding fireworks, most recently last April, and several others across La Belle France have sustained similar attacks this year.

The assault came after two officers were attacked and shot with their own guns in a Gay Paree suburb last Wednesday, prompting renewed calls for stepped-up efforts to tackle crime and insecurity.

Tensions have long run high between police and residents in poor cities, often with large immigrant communities, where protests erupted this summer over claims of brutality and racism in their ranks.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Fox News report, which has video:

The article also reports on a rash of swastikas spray painted on Parisian public buildings. I’ve seen elsewhere that they caught the miscreant, an unnamed gentleman from Georgia, whose population is 11% Muslim.
Update from Free West Media at 8:20 p.m.answers the earlier question:
One inhabitant told Gay Pareeian tabloid Le Gay Pareeien: "It’s no longer possible to live here, I spend as little time there as possible, there are too many youths [French euphemism for Arab and African immigrants colonists, ed.] who have nothing else to do but piss off people."

Darmanin expressed his wish to prohibit, by law, the sale to the public, on the internet, of fireworks which could be considered as "eventual weapons". For several years already these pyrotechnic devices — intended for fireworks professionals — have in fact been used as projectiles against the police or firefighters.
Related:
Champigny-sur-Marne: 2018-04-11 France Arrests 14 over Vicious New Year's Attack on Police
Champigny-sur-Marne: 2018-01-03 France vows crackdown after New Year attack on police
Champigny-sur-Marne: 2014-11-21 French Jihadists Call for Attacks on their Homeland
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Your dreams must be immensely challenging, Zenobia F.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-10-12 20:19  

#2  Sheez... I blame anglophone.
Posted by: Mad Eye Munster4450   2020-10-12 14:42  

#1  L'homme nouveau, ou et, les flicks

"Les rouges... et les noirs... sont ici!"
"Sans reservations? Non!" "Mais oui!"
Tres sauvages... et moderne,
They besiege the caserne
Dans le film: Fort Apache, Paree!
Posted by: Mad Eye Munster4450   2020-10-12 14:38  

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