Masked rioters attack highway and clash with police in Limoges, France | France

Authorities, metal rods, fees and molotov cocktails using dozens of masked attacker attacking cars on a highway and Saturday on Saturday in the city of Limoges, France said that the police said.

According to officials who said they suspected of a gang grass war, nine policemen were injured in the clashes overnight.

Unrest, France came in the middle of the summer tourism season.

According to the authorities, the armed attackers went down to RN141 and tried to prevent him during the war with the police.

“There were 100 to 150 masked individuals equipped with Molotov cocktails, fireworks, stone, iron rods and baseball sticks,” the leader of the local police union, Laurent Nadeau AFP.

Police responded with tears and crowded control ammunition.

Mayor émile-Roger Lombbertie said to the rebellions “urban guerrilla group ..

“Organized, structured, there is a plan, weapons,” he said. “This was not a spontaneous protest to complain about something. There is no excuse, nothing. It is yours to destroy something and show the region.”

Prosecutors, some of the families and children of the vehicles were attacked, but the injured drivers were not immediately reported, he said. “None of the drivers were physically attacked. However, many of them were particularly shocked,” the prosecutors said in a statement.

On the night of July 14, unrest exploded in Val de L’Aurence, the national day of France. Lumbbertie said that the very poor neighborhood of these “young people from their migratory pasts” has become a “unlawful region ..

Limoges Prosecutor émilie Abrantes said there was no evidence that the neighborhood was “known için for drug trafficking, but there was no evidence that connects unrest to the last investigations.

France’s Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday that it plans to use a special security force for the city.