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New tensions on Monday flared in France’s eastern city of Dijon after it was rocked by a weekend of unrest blamed on Chechens seeking vengeance for an assault on a teenager.
Police sources said the unrest was sparked by an attack on a 16-year-old member of the Chechen community on June 10.
Members of the Chechen diaspora then set out on so-called punishment raids seeking to avenge the assault, they said.
After three successive nights of violence, early Monday evening some 150 people, some hooded and armed, again assembled in Dijon, setting rubbish bins and a car on fire.
In an interview with local daily Le Bien Public, a man claiming to be a Chechen said the raids aimed to avenge an assault by local Albanian drug dealers on the 16-year-old.