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New attack on police in Sevran, three injured

2022-08-08T18:19:41.529Z


Four days after a first ambush targeting firefighters and law enforcement, the city of Beaudottes, in Seine-Saint-Denis, was again the scene of urban violence.


In the heart of summer, a new attack against the police.

Four days after a first ambush targeting firefighters and law enforcement, the city of Beaudottes was once again the scene of urban violence, overnight from Saturday to Sunday,

Le Figaro

learned on Monday August 8 from sources. policewomen.

Some sources describe the scene as a new "

trap

" aimed at the authorities.

At the stroke of 11 p.m., a police car, on simple patrol, we are told, is targeted by several individuals, who fire through numerous mortar fire.

The artifices are mixed with the throwing of cobblestones, damaging the vehicle, particularly at the level of the windshield and the side windows.

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Additional police staff

Faced with the violence of the situation, additional police personnel are called in for reinforcement.

To slow down their intervention, the attackers would have set fire to the surrounding vegetation.

The deployed officers used tear gas canisters and their self-defence bullet launcher (LBD) to extricate themselves.

In the attack, three police officers were slightly injured, we are told.

One of them received a cobblestone on his arm, and another was lightly burned on the neck.

So far, no arrests have been made.

An investigation was entrusted to the local reception and investigation service (SAIP) of Sevran.

On the night of Tuesday August 2 to Wednesday August 3, police and firefighters had already been targeted by paving stones and mortar fireworks in the same sensitive area.

The facts took place in the city of Beaudottes, in Sevran.

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Source: lefigaro

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