Very determined protesters led a harassment strategy throughout the incidents. The Minister of the Interior announced his intention to go to the island.
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Half a dozen movable gendarmes, sitting on the road, the back against vehicles parked along the Avenue du Maréchal-Sebastiani, an artery that leads to the prefecture of Haute-Corse, in Bastia. Images have been looping since Sunday, March 13 at night on social networks. In total, 67 wounded, of which 44 members of the police were identified, “the most intense level of commitment for a good fortnight”, provides a police officer under the cover of anonymity. For ten days, and the aggression of Yvan Colonna at the Central House of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), daily clashes mobilize forces of order now exhausted. “The CRS pull several hundred grenades a day, up to 1,200 in the day. Under these conditions, it is unclear how long we can manage the situation effectively,” ensures the same source.
Sunday, the protesters – hardly more than a hundred at the highest clashes – have testified of a degree of determination and unpublished preparation. The pebbles, agricultural bombs and artifice mortars have been added molotov cocktails, of which 300 have been discovered ready for use, concealed near the prefecture. Distributed in small, very mobile groups, recognizable for some to armbands, the protesters led for nearly five hours a tactic of uninterrupted harassment, even successfully entering the buildings of the departmental director of public finances, partially burned.
Material on campsite
Faced with this situation, the police committed were forced to retreat several times and make use of GM2L grenades, whose use is reserved for extreme cases because of the risks of provoking serious injury. A time, the CRS feared not facing, lack of ammunition.
Material, car park, staffing of staff: for ten days, logistical problems hinder the action of the units responsible for keeping the order on the island, a situation that a note expected established by the departmental management of the Public Safety of Haute-Corsica From March 4th: “We are not immune to be collectively confronted with isolated or collective acts leading to high intensity urban violence, can we read it. We alerted Paris and Marseille (…) On our inability with our current ways to deal with a high-intensity commitment. “In order not to awaken suspicion, order maintenance equipment has been sent to Catimini aboard Cars embedded on ferries.
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