Emeute à Yamba en Australie – février 2010
Police shaken after Yamba riot
smh.com.au
February 14, 2010
Police responding to a noise complaint on the NSW north coast have been attacked and their vehicle set on fire.
Two officers sustained minor injuries when a group of up to 20 people – including a 16-year-old girl – set upon them with bricks after they were called to an out-of-control party at an industrial complex in Yamba at around 2.30am (AEDT) on Sunday.
Detective Inspector Chris Clarke told AAP the Deering Street complex’s owner allegedly became « obnoxious and aggressive ».
Up to 20 party-goers then turned on officers, pelting them with rocks and smashing the window of their patrol car, he said.
After the officers retreated on foot, their vehicle was set alight, along with another car, thought to belong to a party-goer.
Det Insp Clarke said police reinforcements arrived at the complex at about 4am (AEDT) and arrested 13 people.
A second patrol car was damaged at that time, causing a total of $50,000 in damage, police said.
The complex’s owner, who allegedly fled during the riot, was among those arrested, police said.
The other 12 people arrested – eight men and four women – were aged between 16 and 23.
All 13 appeared before Grafton Local Court on Sunday, where four were refused bail.
Those refused bail are due to appear before Maclean Local Court on Monday morning. The remaining nine are due to appear before Maclean Local Court on 13 April.
Det Insp Clarke said the officers involved in the incident were shaken.
« The likelihood of serious injury or even death from the bricks that were being thrown was extremely high, » he said.
He added that there could be further arrests with investigations continuing.
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally said she was waiting for a brief from the NSW police on the matter.
« We do take seriously any attack on a police officer, » she said.
« It’s worth remembering NSW police officers put themselves on the very front line, day in and day out to keep the community safe. »
AAP
Yamba riot leaves town in shock
SATURDAY night’s violent riot in Yamba, in which a police vehicle was torched and 15 people arrested, was the talk of the town yesterday as residents and business owners were left asking how such a thing could happen in ‘Australia’s Best Town’.
The call for more police resources was unanimous, as was the concern that a few troublemakers could so quickly sour Yamba’s celebrated family-friendly reputation.
“We don’t want to become a town that’s got a reputation where it’s not safe to be out at night,” Yamba retailer Scott Morschel said.
Yamba Chamber of Commerce president Daniel Reeves said Saturday night’s riot, and last week’s serious assault on Yamba Hill, were two of many concerningincidents to have occurred in the popular coastal town recently.
“The crime is happening thick and fast and there are stories everywhere, whether it be break-ins, which are not always reported, or assaults,” Mr Reeves said.
He encouraged Yamba residents to report all incidents of crime to police to help build the case for more police resources in the Coffs Harbour/Clarence Local Area Command.
Mr Reeves said the aim of a petition currently being circulated in Yamba was to increase the Clarence Valley’s police strength to allow two police cars to patrol the area, instead of the current situation in which only one vehicle patrolled the entire valley area most nights.
He said this would effectively halve police response times in the area and make policing more effective.
Mr Reeves said there was no point refurbishing the Yamba police stat-ion, which had occurred recently,unless there was adequate staff to man it.
“It’s being left unattended for hours on end at any time, day or night,” Mr Reeves said.
“If someone is in the station’s lock-up and there is a call-out, police have to respond with only one officer.”
Mr Reeves said police officers working in Yamba were doing a great job, but there was simply not enough of them.
Grant Dwyer, from Yamba’s Fernando Surf Company, expressed concern about the apparent lack of par-ental responsibility at Saturday night’s party-turned-riot.
“The fact that they think they can get away with throwing things at police astounds me,” he said.
Retailer Leanne Spears, from Emerge on Coldstream, which opened in November last year, said she was embarrassed for Yamba when she saw the incident televised on national news on Sunday night.
Yamba rioters torch police car
coffscoastadvocate.com.au
15th February 2010
POLICE were pelted with pavers, rocks and bottles, and a police paddy wagon torched as a party raged out of control in Yamba in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Fifteen people, most of them juveniles, were arrested as a result of what police described as a riot.
Thirteen of them have been charged with a string of offences, including four adults who were each refused bail when they appeared in a bail court hearing in Grafton yesterday.
Police had been called to a noise complaint in a little-used building in Deering Street in the Yamba industrial area about 11.30pm and issued a noise abatement notice, but returned again about 2.30am as the noise again escalated.
It was when they returned that problems started.
They said that when they arrived they were confronted by about 20 people who armed themselves with bricks and began smashing the windows and panels of the police car.
When the officers attempted to intervene they had rocks and bricks thrown at them.
The officers fled on foot and called for back up. When they left the paddy wagon, which was worth an estimated $50,000, it was torched.
The officers stayed close to the scene collecting evidence until support arrived.
Another police vehicle came to their aid and was also pelted with rocks and bricks.
Police from across the command responded to the incident and arrested 15 people, including the owner of the complex and his wife.
Coffs Clarence Area Police Commander Mark Holahan said it was fortunate none of his officers was hurt in the incident.
“Those who attended made a quick assessment of the threat and moved to safety,” he said.
“If people engage in behaviour that targets members of the NSW Police Force and expect us to sit there and take it, they are sadly mistaken.”
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Yamba is a town at the mouth of the Clarence River in New South Wales. The first European to visit the area was Matthew Flinders, who stopped by in Yamba Bay for six days in July 1799.[2]
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is Australia’s most populous state, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria, south of Queensland and east of South Australia. It was founded in 1788 and originally comprised much of the Australian mainland, as well as Tasmania, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.
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