intrusion and damage to the town hall of Lyon 1er
It was around 9:15 p.m. that the movement began. A hundred people from the ultra-left gathered at Place de la Croix-Rousse to protest against the selection of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen for the second round of presidential elections. Mortar fire was observed. The group then took the direction of the center by the slopes, degrading, in passing, street furniture.
Around 10:30 p.m., when they arrived at Place Sathonay, they entered the town hall of Lyon 1er through an open door.
The staff of the town hall took refuge on the floor
According to information from Progrès, in the exhibition hall, three voting booths were overturned and broken, a table was overturned, there were broken dishes, antifa stickers were placed on the walls, several window panes were broken.
The town hall staff, who were present, took refuge and locked themselves in a room upstairs.
Mortar fire and tear gas canisters
During their intervention, the police were targeted by mortar fire and projectile throwing. They responded with tear gas canisters to push the demonstrators back to the Jardin des Plantes.
At the same time, rue Burdeau, an individual tried to damage a video protection camera. The police officers who intervened were again victims of mortar fire and had to retaliate.
Patrols were maintained throughout the rest of the evening, but there were no other outbursts or arrests.
Five damaged bus shelters
Regarding the damage to public roads, a bus shelter was damaged rue d’Austerlitz, another rue Terme, a garbage can and two bus shelters place Colbert, a bus shelter rue du Jardin des Plantes.
In a tweet, the mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, deplored this “incident in the town hall of the 1st which fortunately did not disturb the results, but remains inadmissible in view of the damage observed”, denouncing “brutal individuals, from a current hostile to the vote and to representative democracy”.