It is undoubtedly the most frequented place by tourists from all over the world. But it is also, since the deconfinement, a sector under tension where attacks seem to be more and more frequent. At the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (VIIe), a man was beaten up this Saturday shortly after 7 p.m. According to the elements collected on the spot by the police during the night, it would be a fight between onlookers and street vendors.
“As often happens, young people would have tried to confuse a seller, perhaps to steal what he is selling,” a police source told us. It would have degenerated. Vendors of Pakistani origin, accustomed to having to defend themselves, reportedly responded with smashed bottles to the head. And it is one of the young people who was finally seriously injured. »
The victim was transported to the European hospital Georges-Pompidou where she had to pass a scanner. His vital prognosis was then engaged. Finally, this Sunday morning, his state of health no longer caused concern. An investigation has in any case been opened for violence in meetings.
A vast police operation the night before
Coincidence or not, a few hours earlier, the Prefecture of Police announced that a “major operation” had been carried out in the same sector. It was more specifically the control of Tuk-Tuk vehicles. Result: two arrests and 30 verbalizations.
Last September, in the Champ-de-Mars area, a police motorcyclist shot and wounded a 26-year-old homeless man who, according to a police source, had thrown himself at him with a bottle in his hand. A case which was already part of a context of great tension in this district of the capital. Nearly 50,000 people pass through it every day. Since the deconfinement, the attacks would be daily there.