Stabbing, attempted fires, throwing stones or firing mortars ... Law enforcement agencies can be confronted with extremely violent situations.
The lives of police officers are often endangered, as the murder of one of them committed in Avignon on Wednesday sadly recalls.
January
Sunday 3:
In the city of 3000 in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), two police officers control a biker.
He doesn't have his papers with him.
His passenger, claiming to go get the documents at his home, returns accompanied by about fifteen people determined to do battle with the officials.
"Neither *** - the!
Shoot in the head!
Kiss his mother ”,
we can hear from an individual who films the fight.
One of the police officers is seriously injured in the shoulder.
Wednesday 13:
A man brandishes a knife shouting
Allah Akbar
in the Amiens police station.
A policeman, disarming him, is injured.
The assailant was subsequently sentenced to 30 months in prison.
February
Friday 12:
About thirty young people attack police officers with fireworks in Poissy (Yvelines), after a control during a crowd.
“
Kill them!
Kill Em !
One of the attackers yells.
Tuesday 16:
A police car is the target of molotov cocktails, still in Poissy (Yvelines) in the middle of the afternoon.
One of the young people, aged only 16, injured two police officers during his arrest.
Friday 26:
In Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), two men break the window of a police car, parked in the Coteaux district, and set it on fire using a molotov cocktail.
March
Tuesday 16:
Two individuals try, in the middle of the night, to set fire to the Carvin police station, near Lens (North). They place two containers in front of the front door and try to set them on fire. The police are alerted by the noises. The delinquents flee but are quickly identified. At home, during a search, gasoline bottles are found.
Saturday 27:
Police officers intervene in a migrant home in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
They rescue one of the tenants with an injured hand.
As they come out, to transport him to the hospital, they are taken to task, targeted with fireworks, by about thirty young people from the neighborhood.
In a video, one of the attackers can be seen going after a police car.
“
Get over it!
[...] Wallah, they fuck each other
, ”one of them laughs.
April
Tuesday 6:
A couple of gendarmes is attacked, in the middle of the night, at their home in Grandvilliers (Oise), located outside the barracks. Noting the intrusion, the soldier leaves his room, gun in hand. Noting that the assailant continues to advance towards him, threatening, he shoots, injuring his night visitor. The latter would have acted out of revenge. A few days earlier, the gendarme had received threats during a trivial affair: "
Don't worry, I know where you live
".
Friday 16:
Police officers on patrol in Épinay-sur-Seine fall into an ambush.
Several dozen young people attack them in the middle of the night with throwing stones, fireworks, glass bottles and three Molotov cocktails were even thrown.
Assailed from all sides, the officials turned back.
Two days before, in the same city, the portraits of several police officers of the city had been plastered in halls of buildings.
Thursday 22:
The police station of Trappes (Yvelines) is the target of fifty mortar fireworks without stopping for two hours, from a gang of young people.
The attackers then protect themselves from the police response by using containers and garbage cans.
Friday 23:
The terrorist attack on the Rambouillet police station will be remembered. That day, Stéphanie Montfeture, 49, was slaughtered in the entrance hall by a radicalized young Tunisian who cried
Allah akbar
. A national tribute is paid to this official, a week later, by Jean Castex. "
Why this hatred of a man towards a woman [the assailant] did not know? Because she embodied the French police and therefore the authority of the State,
”recalls the Prime Minister.
Saturday 24:
A police officer on patrol in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon (Rhône), exceptionally alone in a car, finds himself facing two motorcycles. On the back of the two-wheelers, individuals set fireworks mortars and aimed at the official's car. One of the shots exploded in the glass, before the bikers finally fled. Only one of the assailants, identified, surrendered to the police.
Monday 26:
In Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis) a police officer is lynched during an anti-narcotics operation.
Individuals then make him fall from his scooter, and once on the ground the official is severely beaten: kicks and punches in the head, chest, legs ... "
Smoke him, kill him
" , an assailant would have said.
One of the perpetrators was sentenced to 2 years in prison.
May
Saturday 1:
Among the clashes of May 1, the image that will remain is certainly that of the policeman attacked from behind, in Lyon, by an individual member of the black bloc.
In all, in the capital of Gaul, 27 members of the security forces were injured that day.
Wednesday 5:
In Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), on the sidelines of a high school demonstration, a young man repeatedly throws stones at police officers in their vehicle.
He is filmed by one of his hilarious sidekicks.
The scene quickly escalated and an official was injured in the head.
Wednesday 5:
A police officer is killed during an anti-narcotics operation, on a deal point in Avignon.
He was shot several times by one of the dealers involved.
The shooter is still on the loose.
The official was the father of two children.