The normally sleepy village near Blois is in shock after unprecedented rioting
Three hundred soldiers are patrolling a normally tranquil village in France’s Loire Valley after dozens of armed travellers clashed with police.
The riot erupted on Sunday morning in Saint-Aignan after a gendarme had shot and killed a traveller who had driven through a checkpoint, officials said.
Travellers armed with hatchets and iron bars then attacked the village police station and hacked down trees.
They also toppled traffic lights and road signs and burned three cars.
“It was a settling of scores between the travellers and the gendarmerie,” said the village mayor, Jean-Michel Billon.
He said the travellers also pillaged a bakery in the village. Just 3,400 people live in the village in a popular tourist region of central France.
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