During a rally against the pension reform, the town hall of the 4th arrondissement of Lyon was targeted. Demonstrators tried to set it on fire.
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Lhe town hall of the 4th arrondissement of Lyon was targeted on Friday evening during a rally against the pension reform project, which gave rise to other tensions in the city center and to 36 arrests, according to the prefecture.
Leaving from the center of Lyon at the start of the evening, where there were a few hundred of them, these young people, mostly far-left militants, then played cat and mouse with the police, breaking up into small groups in the streets. narrow, noted an AFP journalist.
They set fire to garbage cans, overturned scooters, smashed billboards and tagged shop windows, chanting: “Whose is it? Whose ? It’s ours ! “. They threw firecrackers, while the CRS responded with the use of tear gas.
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“Intolerable damage”
At the end of the evening, they attacked the town hall of the 4th arrondissement, on the plateau of Croix-Rousse. After breaking the front door of the building, they managed to enter then they “tried to set the fire”, but “the police intervened quickly and succeeded” in extinguishing it, according to the prefecture, which mentioned a “vandalized town hall”.
In a tweet, the prefect of the Rhône Fabienne Buccio condemned “firmly the intrusion and the ransacking of the town hall”. The mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet (EELV), also on Twitter, condemned the “intolerable degradation” of this “public building”. “At this time, 36 arrests have been made,” tweeted the prefecture shortly before 1 a.m.
