Clandestine, narcotics and wild rodeo lover ... The man arrested on Friday after threatening a police officer with a dummy handgun was well known to the police.
The facts took place in the hall of an intervention company, on boulevard Macdonald in Paris 19th.
The Paris prosecutor's office confirmed to
Le Figaro
his arrest and the opening of an investigation.
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The attacker approached the police officer at the reception of the police premises, and threatened him with a handgun, before leaving, the victim having given the alert.
A few dozen meters further on the avenue de la Porte de la Villette, the man was then arrested and checked by police officers from the BRAV-M, Brigade for the repression of motorized violent action.
However, while inspecting the immediate surroundings of the area, the police find a handgun thrown on the ground.
This turns out to be fake, according to information confirmed to Le
Figaro
by a source close to the investigation.
Confronted with the object, the individual then acknowledges being its owner.
"This revolver was fake but that does not change anything about the course of the acts committed by this man, which could have led to a deadly response"
, adds a police source quoted by Actu17.
The defendant, placed in police custody for "
violence against a person holding public authority with a weapon
", is said to be a 24-year-old Moroccan, well known to the authorities.
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