Overview
- Roughly 3,000 people and about 800 vehicles converged late Saturday on the Leclerc Cap Émeraude parking lot despite a prefectural ban on such events.
- Authorities reported dangerous driving and mortar-style fireworks fired in close proximity to a service station, with one individual allegedly approaching officers with a petrol jerrican.
- Police and gendarmes used tear gas to disperse the crowd, which partially regrouped at an Intermarché parking in Ambérieu-en-Bugey before leaving under renewed controls.
- The prefecture said three police vehicles were damaged and the parking area sustained harm, with no injuries to officers reported and numerous fines issued without a precise tally.
- A judicial investigation is underway and the Préfecture de l'Ain plans to file a complaint against unknown persons, as a police union condemned what it called gratuitous ultra-violence.