Overview
- Authorities say about twenty masked participants used mortar-style fireworks during a street video shoot in Rillieux-la-Pape, firing at a police patrol when officers arrived.
- One mortar fell onto a balcony and set the building’s facade alight, damaging multiple floors as flames spread upward across the exterior on Saturday afternoon.
- No injuries were reported, but roughly 39 residents were evacuated and accommodated in a gym, with five apartments declared unusable, including three destroyed and two left uninhabitable by smoke.
- Firefighters and police securing the scene were targeted with projectiles during the response, and security was reinforced overnight with CRS support.
- The Lyon prosecutor’s office opened a criminal investigation and officials, including préfète Fabienne Buccio and the mayor, condemned the acts, while local residents described rescue efforts to help evacuate families.