Exit the game of cat and mouse: now the little city bosses no longer miss an opportunity to physically attack the police, whether they are from the national or the municipal, whether they are walking, walking, motorbikes or in their unmarked vehicles.
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Tuesday evening, while the whole country was vibrating to the sound of street concerts on the occasion of the music festival, several municipal police officers from Saint-Denis (93) paid the price for this exacerbation of violence, lynched in the middle of the street by a whole gang, we learned this Wednesday from a police source, while a video of the attack made the rounds of social networks.
The facts occurred around 8:30 p.m., in the sensitive city of Gabriel Péri, known to be a hub for drug trafficking, with several well-established deal points.
Two municipal police officers on patrol spot a lookout who is wandering around the city of Péri on a bicycle.
They immediately decide to proceed to the control of this individual and then to his verbalization.
At that time, they were accompanied by several colleagues from the Specialized Field Brigade (BST).
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We came with them and seized the bike.
Everything was going well at the time because we are the BST and we are feared because we often challenge them
, ”explains one of them.
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To protect their juicy deal point, the thugs are ready for anything!
»
But as soon as the BST agents left, a gang of about ten individuals, all dressed in black, physically attacked the two municipal police officers.
On the video relayed on Twitter, we can see one of the police officers thrown to the ground after having received a kick in the chest while the other tries by all means to repel his attackers, wiping several blows.
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They attacked the municipal police, taking care to wait until we left the scene and terminated our service.
They know our schedules by heart
, ”continues the same agent.
Despite the violence of the attack, the two officials escaped unscathed.
An investigation was immediately opened by the Bobigny prosecutor's office and an individual was arrested during the night, around 2:30 am.
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To protect their juicy deal point, the thugs are ready for anything!
“,
protests
Matthieu Valet, the spokesperson for the Independent Union of Police Commissioners (SICP)
.
They must be certain that if they attack a police officer, they will systematically go to prison, even for a short sentence.
The fear of firm punishment and systematic incarceration must reign for this type of aggression.
»
On Sunday, three individuals were arrested in the Bois-l'Abbé district, in Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne), during yet another refusal to comply.
Two of them rebelled, injuring two policemen.
The same evening, around forty residents of the neighborhood attacked the police station in an attempt to free the three suspects, according to
Le Parisien
.
The evening before, in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), a police officer was beaten with his truncheon by a gang while catching up and arresting a man who was in a vehicle refusing control.
Fifteen days of total incapacity for work (ITT) were attributed to him.