US EditionNight Violence: What Happened on the Margins of the Aurillac Street Theatre Festival?
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Two brigades of the CRS 83, specializing in riots, were sent as early as Thursday evening in support of the three CRS companies on site.
Several hundred people attacked the CRS in Aurillac. Violence took place during the night, on the sidelines of the street theatre festival in the city. Police reinforcements are expected this Thursday evening to guarantee the festivities to take place in good conditions. - Night violence: what happened on the sidelines of the Aurillac street theatre festival? (Police, justice and other facts).
The first evening of the international street theatre festival was marked by urban violence between festivalgoers and law enforcement agencies. An investigation is under way, the prosecutor's office announces this Thursday.
During the night of 20-21 August, Aurillac was the scene of urban violence on the margins of the international street theatre festival. Eight police officers were injured and urban furniture was degraded. Despite these incidents, the demonstration continues with a strengthened security system.
Violence broke out in the centre of Aurillac (Cantal) on Wednesday, 20 August, in the evening on the first day of the street theatre festival, opposing the law enforcement forces to an emotive group.
The festival was disrupted on Wednesday night by 300 people who came to take shelterbuses and many shops in a square in the city centre. They also threw stones at the security forces and built barricades.
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