It is 12:20 am in Rive-de-Gier (Loire), in the night from Thursday to Friday, when the police come to note the presence of a group of disturbers on the public highway, accused of night noise.
The situation escalates.
Among the crew, a 51-year-old officer was the victim of a projectile throw.
Its vital prognosis is engaged, had specified Friday Cédric Esson, the departmental director of public security of the Loire, during a press conference.
The perpetrators of the attack are on the run.
The official is now out of the coma he was in.
According to a police source in Le Parisien, “at 8:15 pm yesterday (Friday) our colleague woke up and said a few words”.
His vital prognosis is no longer engaged, the Saint-Etienne prosecutor's office confirmed on Saturday.
"He regained consciousness coming out of the state of sedation in which he was and was able to speak last night to his wife who had come to visit him", explained the deputy public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, André. Blackbird.
For its part, the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) of the Loire indicated in a brief press release that “the brigadier-chief injured during an intervention is still in intensive care […].
His condition remains worrying, but is improving ”.
Visibly "alcoholic" individuals
Thursday evening, the small group of about fifteen people reacted strongly to the arrival of the police, made up of a crew of three officials from the Saint-Chamond police station responsible for ensuring the application of the curfew.
Obviously "alcoholic", according to Cédric Esson, these individuals then threw projectiles at them, in particular bottles, pieces of concrete blocks and aluminum cans.
Officials responded by using tear gas canisters, a police source told Le Parisien.
It was in the midst of these clashes that the chief brigadier, who allegedly tried to reach his vehicle to take cover, received a projectile in the right cheekbone, causing loss of consciousness.
His colleagues, who were about to retreat, found him inert, lying on the ground.
Vincent Bony, the PCF mayor of Rive-de-Gier, “strongly condemned this unacceptable aggression”.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, gave him “all his support” to the injured and to his colleagues.
"Our services are fully mobilized to find the author of the facts," he assured on Twitter.
The alleged perpetrators of the bottle-throwing took a tangent just after the violence.
An investigation for "violence against persons holding public authority" has been opened, but no arrests have been made for the moment.
The author of the shooting which injured the police officer risks ten years in prison, recalled the deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Saint-Etienne.
