French ‘Youths’ Set Traps for Police in Guerrilla-Like Clashes, by Chris
Tomlinson, 10/3/18, Breitbart. Small groups of young people in the
French city of Mulhouse clashed with local police over the weekend,
allegedly using guerrilla-style tactics against the officers including laying
traps and attacking them.
In Toulon, violence has even escalated toward paramedics to the point that one area has introduced bulletproof vests for medical services personnel to wear while out in the field.
The clashes
occurred over the period of several hours and saw the local youths set
garbage bins on fire and destroy a car in the neighborhood of Drouot, newspaper L’Alsace reports.
The violence began
in the area at around 8:30 pm according to local residents who called the
police to help calm the situation. When officers arrived on the scene at Rue de
la Navigation, they were met with violence as small groups attacked them with
weapons including stones and iron bars.
The
besieged officers caught in the ambush managed to call for reinforcements from
Mulhouse and from neighboring Colmar and Saint-Louis which lies on the Swiss
border. The police also requested additional Gendarmes helicopter air support.
Around
50 “youths” were believed to have participated in the clashes, throwing stones
and other objects from the top of roofs in the neighborhood at the officers.
The clashes lasted several hours and police say that the situation did not
return to normal until around 3 am. No one was arrested following the conflict.
Attacks on police and
other emergency services workers have become more and more common across
France, with some, like the vicious beating of a female officer over New Year’s, being caught on
film.
Some attacks have also
been deadly whether they have been linked to radical Islamic terrorism or
more recently a seemingly random attack that saw a man in Rodez stab a
police officer to death in the street.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
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