The Nahel riots in France; details from one region, heavily keltic Brittany

In all, 875 people were arrested in France following the riots and looting committed on the night of June 29 to 30. The “white march” in Nanterre – which brought together 6,200 people, very quickly degenerated, which was foreseeable from the start, but did not prevent the authorities from authorizing it.

Nanterre is a very modern city north of Paris

More than 3,800 fires were set on public roads, including 492 buildings, including neighborhood town halls, stores, as well as more than 500 cars. In Marseilles, the rioters tried to set fire to the library of the Alcazar and violently attacked two policemen, recognized outside their service; in Bordeaux, the hunting department of a Decathlon was looted, and ammunition stolen.

The point in historic Brittany, where that night, nearly 110 cars were burned – nearly half of them in Nantes, two stores looted, another burned down, an MJC burned down, a post office, a neighborhood town hall, two social centers ( St Herblain and Brest), three banks, a Resto U…

Lidl looted, stores, cars and post burned: major damage in Nantes and its agglomeration

Nantes . Around fifty cars, at the very least, would have been set on fire in the Nantes conurbation (including two in Rezé and around ten in Saint-Herblain), a looted supermarket, a burnt store, as well as a post office, a Busway and a town hall annex (North Nantes).

Fires and urban riots took place in several so-called “ sensitive” [wog] neighborhoods. At Clos Toreau, a bus was evacuated of its passengers and set on fire – net loss, more than one million euros. It was still smoking when it was evacuated this morning. In Beaulieu, several burnt cars and bus shelters, around twenty cars were set on fire on the Chapelle road north of Nantes, as well as the annex town hall of Nantes north.

Ditto in Bellevue, where a bus was blocked and stoned on Boulevard Romanet but was able to leave. The Lidl was broken into by a car used as a ram, and looted, just as was the McDonalds, for about ten minutes; at least one refrigerated van was set on fire – it is a Brest greengrocer which makes the Friday market in Bellevue, on the  Saint-Herblain side , on this same square, two other vans and a car were set on fire: three other cars were set on fire in rue de Mayenne and rue d’Espalion. In Bellevue too, a Centrakor store was burnt down – nine employees are on technical unemployment, and a former recycling center has been pelted with rocks. In Chantenay-les-Nantes, the police station was targeted by an attempted arson fire at 3:45 a.m.

In Malakoff, at least ten cars were set on fire in the streets Irlande and Angleterre. As at the height of the 2018 riots, the smell of burning was persistent this night above the center of Nantes, even if the wind dissipated the smoke.

In  Rezé , two cars were also set on fire at the Château de Rezé and Molotov cocktails fired at the police station. In  Saint-Herblain , in addition to several cars, the local post office in Preux was set on fire, a bank ransacked, and the Carré des services, which houses administrative services, was rammed.

Nine people aged between 13 and 34 were arrested – but more than 250 offenders, in various neighborhoods, took part in the clashes and looting. This Friday evening, the TAN service will cease at 8 p.m., as well as that of the Aleop departmental buses – for the TAN this measure will also be applied on Saturday and Sunday July 1 and 2.

Saint-Brieuc (22): Carrefour express looted, two neighborhoods on fire

Saint Brieuc . The express intersection located on the Place de la Cité in Saint-Brieuc was vandalized and looted by around forty young delinquents, around 12:30 a.m. Cool merchandise that wasn’t stolen is lost – rioters set fire to a transformer and knocked out power to the entire building. Six cars and a bar were stoned on Anatole France Street. In the Balzac district, an Algeco and a construction machine were set on fire. Garbage cans were also set on fire in front of the remand center.

About fifty rioters sowed disorder in the Balzac and Europe districts. The MJC in the Place de la Cité was set on fire. The restaurant U was also vandalized and drink distributors looted. A firefighter was injured by a bottle shard in the face – he was hospitalized and stitched up. In all, at least 15 cars were set on fire, some on avenue Corneille.

In  Guingamp  (22), tags were made on recently renovated buildings in Castel-Pic and a pallet fire was lit.

Brest (29): even the Socialist Party mayor denounces ” 300 people in mobile groups out to smash, loot, and burn “

In Brest, nearly 300 rioters according to the PS mayor François Cuillandre – who denounces the consequences of the causes he so cherished – engaged in destruction, exactions, looting and fires. In all, 19 cars were burned, including rue de Gouesnou in Pontanézen and rue du Berry in Bellevue.

Gangs of young delinquents came out of their neighborhoods, converged on the SNCF station, then hammers in hand, began to break up bus shelters and loot shops around Place de la Liberté, in the commercial city center; the furniture of the tram site was set on fire, an Allianz insurance agency stoned. They also robbed the Jott down jacket store, opposite the town hall and set fire to dozens of trash cans.

In addition, in Bellevue, a “sensitive” district like its eponym in Nantes – for the same reasons, “diversity” and drugs, four cars and some construction machinery were set on fire. About fifty young delinquents tried to set fire to the district town hall, the police station and the insurance agency; they also ransacked two bank branches, the CMB and the Crédit Agricole. As in Nantes, the Lidl was smashed up and looted – it was the second supermarket in Brest to bear the brunt of the riots after the Biocoop in Pontanezen the day before.

In Kerourien, a construction machine was used by around twenty looters to crash into the entrance to the social center, then set it on fire. They then drove into it with a car. The HLM office was ransacked, as well as the vehicles and the Domino’s Pizza building, and a sports hall completely burned down. In Keredern, the tennis club suffered an attempted fire.

In  Quimper , dumpsters were set on fire at Braden – the fire spread to a car parked nearby.

Rennes and Ille-et-Vilaine (35): localized riots for the moment

Ille-et-Vilaine remains somewhat outside the movement for the moment. The firefighters intervened for 28 trash fires, six Algeco fires, 17 car fires including four construction machines – most of them in the Rennes area, in particular in Saint-Jacques de la Lande where trash cans  were  burned and in Maurepas north of Rennes. In Blosne, four people were arrested with cans of gasoline and mortars, a site base and burnt cars, surveillance cameras in front of the metro damaged with the help of a construction machine then set on fire. The firefighters intervened for 35 fires of vehicles and garbage cans.

Lorient (56): destruction and depredations

In  Lorient, rioters destroyed bus stops, garbage cans, and burned an Algeco down….

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– but also cars in Kervénanec, and a construction machine in Bois-du-Château. A neighborhood house was stoned. Bin fires were also reported in  Lanester .

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