Two men, suspected of having violently assaulted three police officers on Saturday evening February 4 in Toulon, one of whom was recognized as 30 days of total incapacity for work (ITT), were placed in police custody, said this Monday the prosecutor of Toulon Samuel Finielz.
The two suspects, born in 1991 and 1994, "
both acknowledge having been present at the place
" where the facts were committed but "
indicate however that they intervened in an altercation between several individuals
", to try to separate them , he detailed.
“Severe medical consequences”
A version "
which seems to be denied in the state of the investigations
" carried out thanks to video surveillance images, added the prosecutor.
The assaulted police officers, who were off duty, said they were leaving a drinking establishment in central Toulon on Saturday evening when they were stopped by a group of several people, he said.
“
These three to four individuals, according to the CCTV images, immediately questioned them about their qualities as police officers
” before “
committing particularly serious violence against them
”, underlined the prosecutor.
Following this attack with "
severe medical consequences
" for the police, two of them were totally incapacitated for ten days while the third was arrested for thirty days, said Samuel Finielz.
Placement in pre-trial detention
We are going to "
request the opening of a judicial investigation for several counts of offence
", in particular "
violence on a national police official having resulted in total incapacity for work greater than eight days with aggravating circumstance
", he said. he completed.
An offense punishable by 10 years in prison, recalled the prosecutor.
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The opening of a judicial investigation was also requested by the prosecution for "
outrages which would have been committed at the start of the altercation
" as well as for the "
theft with violence
" of the mobile phone of one of the police officers.
"
Given the extreme gravity and the absolutely inadmissible nature of the facts that have been committed
", the prosecution "
will take requisitions for placement in pre-trial detention
", further indicated Samuel Finielz, specifying that the investigations would continue to identify other people who may have participated in the attack.
