A 20-year-old man who stabbed a police officer on Thursday in Brive (Corrèze) during a check in a shopping arcade was sentenced on Monday October 26 to thirty months in prison with a committal warrant
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The man, homeless, was sentenced for several offenses including "violence with a weapon on persons holding public authority" followed by total incapacity for work (ITT) of more than eight days, according to the Brive prosecutor's office confirming information from the Mountain.
The day before this attack, a report of the man had been made to the police, after he had threatened a security guard and a cashier of a supermarket in the same shopping mall with a knife, fleeing with foodstuffs. stolen.
For these facts, the "threat with weapon" and "psychological violence" were held against him.
Saturday when he is back, a security guard and a police officer tries to stop him.
He then brandishes a knife and tries to deliver several blows to the police officer in the chest.
The man is finally arrested by police officers who arrived as reinforcements.
The "rebellion with weapon" was also held against him as well as the fact of possessing a weapon despite a ban pronounced in a previous judgment in March in Tulle.
