About a dozen youths wanted to have a fight, especially at the moment of the first arrest," recalls one officer. "The individual arrested claimed we were going for him because he was wearing a djellaba, but in reality he was arrested because he matched the precise description given by the victim (NOTE: of theft of mobile phone)."

It's an incredible scene that met police officers when they arrived in Brétigny-sur-Orge. While they were trying to bring help to the victims of the derailment of the Paris-Limoges train, in which at least six people died, they had to deal with stones being thrown at them by a small group of 'jeunes'. At the origin of the attack: looters who had come to steal from the bodies of the dead and wounded whatever they could carry away.

"They seemed to be helping the victims". Nathalie Michel, from the Alliance police trade union, describes the scene on air on Europe 1: "At 5.30 pm, while our colleagues were deploying, they see a group of 'jeunes' who approach and seem to be helping the victims. Very quickly, they realise that these individuals are there to rob the victims and especially the first corpses," says the trade union member indignantly.