PARIS (Reuters) – France’s elite ‘RAID’ police unit has arrested several members of the Chechen community after four nights of gang violence in the city of Dijon, a police source said.
Trouble first broke out late on Friday when about 100 Chechen youths from across France came to the Dijon suburb of Gresilles to avenge an attack on a Chechen teenager, police officials said.
Armed police moved into to restore order as the violence spread between rival gangs, authorities said.
Clashes have broken out in recent months in a number of high-rise, low-income housing estates across France, where the strict lockdown rules imposed to tackle the coronavirus have exacerbated social tensions.
(Reporting by Myriam Rivet, Jean-Michel Belot and Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
