Many users will have to find alternative solutions during the evenings of July 13 and 14. Two weeks after the end of the urban riots, the authorities want to anticipate any new outbreak of violence as best they can. And therefore prevent any damage to street furniture or means of transport. This Wednesday, the Minister of the Interior announced that buses and trams will stop earlier, Thursday and Friday evenings, at 10 p.m. The measure, aimed at preventing the latter from being attacked and set on fire by rioters, will target “all major urban areas”. And more or less resembles the one that had been put in place at the height of the riots throughout the country. However, metros and RERs will run normally.
While 130,000 police forces, including 10,000 in Paris, will be mobilized throughout the weekend to contain any possible overflow, Gérald Darmanin wishes to “guarantee maximum security so that our fellow citizens enjoy the party without suffering the inconvenience of a few offenders and a great firmness towards those who would like to spoil these nights of national festivity with a systematic order of arrest”. As a reminder, 749 vehicles were burned during the national festivities last year.
