The procession which set off on May 1 to demonstrate against the pension reform was once again marred by violence.
Across France, 108 police and gendarmes were injured, including 25 in Paris.
Among them, "a police officer was seriously injured, burned following a Molotov cocktail jet", in Paris, announced Monday evening the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
Still hospitalized on Tuesday morning, this policeman was burned in the second degree on the level of the face and the hands, parts of the body which were not covered by the fireproof uniform, specifies a police source in
Figaro
.
His vital prognosis is not engaged.
As for the alleged author of the Molotov cocktail jet, the latter has not yet been arrested.
The Paris prosecutor's office has opened a flagrant investigation for
"attempted homicide on a person holding public authority" , entrusted to the second district of the judicial police,
Le Figaro
learned
from a judicial source.
"The Day of Abuse"
“May 1st was the day of violence. The police have been confronted with attempted homicides in an organized gang
, ”deplores Renaud Mazoyer, deputy zonal delegate in Paris of the Alliance police union.
"If the vast majority of demonstrators were pacifists of course, in Paris, Lyon and Nantes in particular, the police faced extremely violent thugs who came with one objective: to kill cops and attack property. others”
, for his part denounced Gérald Darmanin on Twitter.
In the capital, the violence intensified when the pre-procession arrived at Place de la Nation, the end point of the parade.
Hundreds of "black blocks" notably used fireworks in direct fire at the police, who responded with a lot of tear gas and defensive grenades.
Monday evening, the police headquarters reported 111 arrests.