Two police officers were severely beaten by about fifteen individuals during an intervention on a car rodeo in a sensitive district of Valenciennes this Sunday, December 13, said the police union Alliance.
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"Michel Lalande, prefect of the North, gives his full support to the police officers who were the object of a cowardly assault this afternoon in Valenciennes, they intervened to put an end to an urban rodeo"
, tweeted the prefecture, which no did not provide further details in view of the opening of an investigation.
The prefect
"strongly condemns these actions which justice will have to know soon
", adds the tweet.
According to Arnauld Boutelier, Alliance regional deputy secretary general, the emergency police control carried out by the two police officers in the
"difficult" district
of Briquette, was
"disturbed by about fifteen individuals who came into contact with them"
, and none of which had been arrested in the evening.
Struck including on the ground
"The police were beaten and molested, their vehicle damaged and equipment stolen"
, but no weapons, he told AFP, accusing the attackers, who fled before the arrival of reinforcements , for wanting to
"make police officers, to lynch them".
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Hit including to the ground with kicks and punches, the police, who lodged a complaint, came out with bruises, the most affected, in the knee, having been released from the hospital in the early evening, said Arnauld Boutelier.
Believing that the attackers should be
"quickly identified"
via video surveillance, he hoped that they would have
"the sanction they deserve.
This is why we are asking for minimum sentences ”
for attacks against the police, he added.