Seeing the figure wrapped in a long coat, a hood pulled tightly over his head, the police officers from the anti-crime brigade (Bac) of Neuilly-sur-Seine did not fail to observe further. The person whose features they cannot distinguish is then walking near the Sablons metro station and it is while patrolling, Monday a little before 8 p.m., that they notice him.
The police approach and see the butt of a weapon sticking out of the long coat, which appears to be long. Without a second thought, they rush towards the muffled figure and order him to stop and carry out a check. No reaction. Then as they surround the suspect, he struggles like hell. What the police will call rebellion.
Case closed
The person walking around with this long weapon is a 16-year-old young man, whom they arrest to place him in police custody. The teenager will explain that with his headphones in his ears, he heard nothing of the injunctions of the police. And that when he saw the men from the Bac, who work in civilian clothes, rushing towards him, he did not immediately realize that they were police officers.
As for the long weapon, it turned out to be fake. The young man explained that he was “not aware of the ban on carrying a weapon, even an artificial one” in the street. In any case, he didn't attack anyone. And he had taken this weapon to join some friends with whom he was going to “play”. Presumably a role-playing game.
After his night in police custody, the teenager was released on Tuesday and the case was closed.