Following the violent attack on three police officers in Lyon in the Guillotière district, an individual was arrested, the Minister of the Interior announced on Twitter on Sunday July 24.
He is a man in an irregular situation, who was immediately placed in detention and must soon be deported.
On Wednesday evening, three plainclothes police officers were violently attacked in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon while trying to arrest a person suspected of theft.
The crew in civilian clothes "
were intervening for a snatch robbery when they were very quickly attacked by the crowd
", a police source told AFP, adding that the suspect had taken the opportunity to flee.
On a video of the scene broadcast on social networks, we see two men and a woman being beaten and thrown by projectiles in front of the entrance to a convenience store in the sensitive district of La Guillotière, in the city center.
"Foreign criminals have no place in France"
According to Alliance, two and seven days of ITT were prescribed for two of them.
The assaulted police officers also had to file a complaint for their injuries.
Five days later, the authorities were able to arrest one of the suspects of the violence against the officials.
Placed in an administrative detention center, he must soon be expelled to his country of origin, promises the Minister of the Interior, adding: “
Foreign delinquents have no place in France.
»
Several members of the government but also political leaders of LR and RN had shown their support for the injured police officers and asked the Minister of the Interior to "
take back control
" in the face of violence in certain neighborhoods.
At the beginning of the year, a specialized field brigade was set up in the La Guillotière district to try to stem crime and trafficking there, while acts of violence have increased there over the past two years.
