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Aggression in Herblay: when a banal surveillance operation turns into a tragedy

10/8/2020, 7:20:50 PM


As part of these ordinary operations, it is not uncommon for the police to come in pairs, for safety reasons.

To carry out checks as part of a judicial investigation, such as ensuring the existence of an address, as did the two police officers assaulted Wednesday evening in Herblay, there is a golden rule for investigators to be continued: discretion.

"If we then have to mount a search or make arrests, it is not a question of being spotted"

, indicates a retired police officer who no longer counts the number of operations of this type and of spinning carried out throughout of her career.

Wednesday evening, to go and do this address verification, a simple procedural act, the two officials of the Pontoise judicial police leave in an unmarked car and in civilian clothes, towards the Herblay industrial zone.

A site where warehouses follow one another and where, according to police sources, various traffics, in particular drugs, are also proliferating.

"In relation to the places, the late time chosen by the police to get there was undoubtedly considered the most suitable"

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