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A police patrol targeted by mortar fire at the scene of the Viry-Chatillon attack

2022-08-05T15:31:11.065Z


The civil servants intervened on a material accident at the crossroads of the Fournil at the entrance of the Grande Borne and suffered several shots


It is a new attack which occurred at a symbolic place for the police officers of the police station of Juvisy-sur-Orge who patrol in Viry-Chatillon (Essonne).

The crossroads called "du Fournil" at the corner of avenue Victor-Schoelcher and rue Toussaint-Louverture, is where the Molotov cocktail attack of four police officers took place in October 2016.

They were present to ensure the security of the video surveillance camera, which is regularly degraded because it interferes with drug trafficking.

“Every police officer who passes here necessarily thinks about it, we are all a little traumatized”, confides an agent.

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So this Thursday, August 4, around 4:30 p.m., they were really scared.

A patrol made up of four officers provides security on the sidelines of a material traffic accident.

Not a particularly risky mission except that being static at this precise location brings back memories.

Quickly accompanied by facts since two young people, hidden faces emerge from the Grande Borne and fire fireworks at the agents.

Tear gas to scare away the two assailants

"Colleagues were forced to retaliate," said a police source.

There were no injuries or arrests.

To scare the two assailants away, the officers took cover and fired tear gas canisters.

Facts which occur less than a week after the attack organized against the police station of Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) to protest against the arrest of a suspected dealer and which left two injured.

“There are two types of attacks, notes a policeman.

Reprisals, as in Vitry.

And those to challenge authority as in Viry.

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The firefighters, whose barracks is located a few meters away, intervened to extinguish the beginning of a fire in the lawn of the central reservation.

An investigation was opened for willful violence against the depositary of public authority and entrusted to the Juvisy-sur-Orge police station.

Source: leparis

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