Overview
- About 3,000 people and roughly 800 vehicles gathered late on November 15 on a Leclerc parking lot despite a prefectural ban on tuning events.
- Police, gendarmes and municipal officers reported reckless driving before coming under mortar-style fireworks, some launched near the fuel station and aimed at them.
- Authorities say one participant approached officers carrying a jerrycan of petrol, prompting the use of tear gas to push back violent groups and restore order.
- After dispersal in Bourg-en-Bresse, part of the crowd regrouped at an Intermarché lot in Ambérieu-en-Bugey and then left following a security deployment.
- Numerous fines were issued, three police vehicles and the site were damaged, and no injuries to officers were reported as follow-up procedures continue.