Several police officers from the northern districts of Marseille were attacked by around twenty individuals during an operation targeting a "
big shot
" in drug trafficking, this Friday, September 16 at the end of the afternoon,
Le Figaro
learned from a source. policewoman.
The facts took place this Friday around 6 p.m., in the small "
formerly quiet
" town of Belle-de-Mai, and more precisely around the Moulin-du-Mai residence, in the 3rd arrondissement of the Marseille city.
The sector is home to significant drug trafficking, which police officers from the Specialized Field Brigade (BST) wanted to shake up by arresting a "
big guy
", "
wanted for extremely serious facts
", at the end of this afternoon.
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While the agents proceeded, without concern, to his arrest, twenty to twenty-five individuals disembarked, surrounded them and then “
threw themselves on the police to free
” the arrested man.
“
It was incredibly violent
,” we are told.
Throws of concrete blocks, sometimes less than two meters away, are observed.
Reinforcements are deployed a few minutes later to extract the targeted law enforcement and arrest the perpetrators of the attack.
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Five people, including the wanted individual, were apprehended.
Despite the violence of the scene, the police escaped serious injuries.
One of them, however, had two broken fingers, while another “
has bruises all over his body
”.
An agent also received a smash in the face, and could have a broken nose.
"
It's a very small city, which weighs absolutely nothing compared to the other cities in the northern districts
" of Marseille, explains our source.
“
It was completely quiet fifteen years ago... Today, it has become unmanageable
”.