Smoke, screams, throwing stones: the video has gone around social networks.
A rescue police crew was violently attacked on Sunday April 10 at the end of the afternoon in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis) by around thirty excited individuals.
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The facts occurred a little before 5:30 p.m. in the Beaudottes district.
Initially, it was for the two police officers to check a vehicle, a Lotus in this case.
But the driver initially refused to comply, dragging the crew into the middle of this reputedly sensitive city, as
a police source explains to
Le Figaro .
The vehicle finally came to a stop and the check could take place without a hitch.
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The police were busy consulting the file of stolen vehicles on their mobile phones when jets of projectiles began to rain down.
Many concrete blocks landed on the police vehicle as well as on the officials who had not had time to get back on board.
One was injured in the hands and the back of the skull, the other in the back.
The violence escalated further when calls for murder were made.
“
Kill them!
cried the attackers several times, as can be heard on the amateur video captured by a man from a pétanque court.
To protect themselves and in order to withdraw as quickly as possible, the two agents were forced to use the LBD (defense ball launcher) four times.
A tear gas grenade was also unpinned.
The police finally managed to get out in extremis.
They were hospitalized at the Vert Galant clinic, in Tremblay-en-France (93).
They only suffer superficial injuries.
“
They are miracles ”, points out the same police source, who says he is convinced that the crew fell into a “
perfectly organized
” ambush
.
“Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for colleagues to fall into this kind of ambush.
It's a bit of the departmental sport in Seine-Saint-Denis
, “ironically a policeman.
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The screen-printed Peugeot Partner was badly damaged.
All the windows were smashed or partially smashed, the flashing light bar was broken, a mirror was ripped off and the rear doors can no longer be opened.
“
France is disgusted with these heinous acts!
“, was indignant on Twitter Mathieu Valet, the spokesperson for the Independent Union of Police Commissioners (SICP).
An investigation was opened but no arrest had yet taken place this Monday at the end of the morning.
