A court in Grenoble handed down the first sentences for participation in riots. According to France Info, three people were sentenced to between three and four months in prison.
The media specifies that all of them were punished for attempted robberies during street riots.
Recall that the riots have been going on in the country for several days. Young people set fire to cars, buildings of the police and local authorities, rob banks and shops.
In total, about 2.4 thousand people were detained, a third of them are minors. The protests erupted after a 17-year-old was killed by police officers while checking on a road in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre. According to law enforcement officers, the young man refused to comply with their demands.
Meanwhile, as it became known, protesters attacked the house of the mayor of the French city of L’Ail-le-Rose. As a result of the attack, his wife and child were injured, the official Vincent Jeanbrune himself said on social networks. Prosecutors have launched an investigation into the attempted murder.
Edition 20Minutes, in turn, writes that against the backdrop of events in France, riots began in neighboring Switzerland. According to the media, citing the police, last night seven people were detained in Lausanne, Switzerland. Six of them are minors.
Source: Rosbalt
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