Tuesday around 1:30 p.m., a crew of six firefighters intervened for a warehouse fire, route du Mort Ru, in Longpont-sur-Orge (Essonne).
An intervention a priori banal, but which will degenerate.
The men of the fire are greeted by a man armed with a knife who threatens and insults them.
Warned, the police quickly went to the scene.
The man will eventually drop his knife, but he then hits two firefighters, one in the face, the other in the arm, slightly injuring them, before being arrested.
Placed since in police custody, He must be referred this Thursday.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the suspect, aged about forty, would have himself set fire to the warehouse following a dispute with the owner of the premises.
He was therefore not happy to see the firefighters arrive.
“The crew is shocked.
We do not expect to be attacked on such an intervention in a city like Longpont, ”deplores the management of the Essonne security and fire service (Sdis 91), which filed a complaint.
“We are no longer safe anywhere”
“We are regularly attacked, even if for a few years, the violence has remained stable.
The novelty is that before, it remained localized in certain districts.
Now, it can happen anywhere, at home, outdoors, in any town.
You have to be vigilant all the time.
We are no longer safe anywhere, ”we note at Sdis.
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On May 1 in Paris, a 38-year-old woman, a former nurse, violently attacked a firefighter who was responding to a fire following numerous damages linked to the Labor Day parade.
Placed on Sunday evening in police custody, she was to be tried this Wednesday in immediate appearance.