They can be mobilized 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can be deployed in less than 15 minutes anywhere in France.
These are the 200 police officers of the brand new elite unit wanted by the Director General of the National Police Frédéric Veaux, the Republican Security Company 8, alias "CRS 8".
It is precisely these police forces specializing in the fight against urban violence, which were sent on August 16 to Colmar (Haut-Rhin), after the murder on Monday of a 27-year-old young man who had protested against an urban rodeo.
In a press release, the public prosecutor of Colmar Catherine Sorita-Minard had stressed that the victim and his friends had been "
annoyed by the regular passage of a scooter on the sidewalk
" and that the young Afghan had asked "
the driver to move away to stop the noise
.
Offended, the driver had sworn, after insulting him, to "
come back with reinforcements
".
A little later, he did indeed reappear, flanked by several…
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