A man was taken into custody on Sunday in Bayonne after attacking police with a knife at Biarritz airport, we learned from the police and the Bayonne prosecutor's office.
According to France Bleu, the man whose nationality has not yet been established with certainty, (Dutch or German), apparently under the influence of drugs, would have liked to pass through a screening zone "in which he had
not to be
, ”says the prosecution.
Armed with a knife, he wanted to go to Berlin.
Customs officials refused him access and the passenger pulled out his knife, injuring two of the four police officers who arrested him were slightly injured and taken to hospital.
“
The individual, not seeming to be in his normal state, could be controlled not without difficulty ”, specifies for his part Christophe Labarthe, regional and departmental secretary of the union Unit SGP Police, who denounces “
serious and free
” facts
.
The Bayonne public prosecutor's office has opened a flagrant investigation for attempted murder on the depositary of public authority, entrusted to the Bayonne judicial police.