The impressive brawl had seven injured, including several by white weapons, according to police.
This is a plea which has requested the mobilisation of many police officers. Seventeen people, including seven minors, suspected of involvement in a violent brawl between rival gangs at the end of June at Saint-Germain-en-Laye were arrested on Tuesday in the department of Yvelines, a-t-on learned from police source.
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The brawl was opposite between 30 and 60 people, some armed with iron bars and knives, at the opening of the feast of the Lodges in the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye on the 29th of June.
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of the youth Of the neighborhoods of Bel-Air, Saint-Germain, but also of Poissy, Sartrouville, Chanteloup-les-Vignes and Les Mureaux clashed at various times during several hours in the evening.
Seven injured
The brawl had been seven wounded, “some by bladed weapons,” according to the police. Two of them had to be evacuated by helicopter and a third was wounded in the chest, was transported urgently to a hospital in paris. All are now out of the hospital.
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Thanks to the “book of testimonies”, in “the exploitation of the telephone traffic,” but especially the “operating records of systems of video surveillance” in Saint-Germain, Chanteloup and Poissy, the police was able to positively identify 17 individuals who took part in the violence.
A hundred of police officers mobilized
A hundred policemen have therefore proceeded to arrest simultaneously all of the suspects on Tuesday, which have immediately been placed in police custody in several police stations of the Yvelines department.
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The raids have resulted in the “discovery for many of them of clothes they wore the night of the facts”. The most recognized “their presence and their participation in the violent thug,” said police in a press release. The investigation, entrusted to the departmental Safety, continues, she said.
