The assault, filmed and broadcast on social networks, had caused a lot of emotion in Saint-Denis.
Less than a year after the incident, the investigation into the knife attack in the middle of the market is complete.
Two men, reportedly illegal Afghans, had been indicted for attempted murder.
They are implicated in having stabbed a passer-by and one of the police officers who intervened.
The two victims were seriously injured without their lives being in danger.
The officials
responded by shooting the two attackers 12 times.
They got away with it too.
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Saint-Denis: four injured, including a police officer, following a brawl with knives
According to our information, the Bobigny public prosecutor's office requested the return of the two men to the criminal court for aggravated willful violence.
Clearly, the case could be "correctionalized."
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One of the attackers resists the electric pulse pistol
This Sunday, September 27, 2020, at the beginning of the afternoon, the police are called place du 8-mai-1945 for a brawl.
On the arrival of the officials of the anti-crime brigade, a crowd movement.
One of the crew members discovers an eviscerated victim on the ground.
Above her, according to a source close to the investigation, a man holds a knife at her throat.
The policeman fires with his electric pulse pistol.
The aggressor falls, gets up immediately, and rushes at the official.
The latter stumbles and is stabbed in the knee and another in the thigh.
A colleague of the police officer fires.
The other attacker then throws a razor blade at the official who has just shot.
New shots.
120 days of ITT for the police officer
After being hospitalized, the two attackers were remanded in custody pending trial. The seriously injured victim was operated on. She is now out of the woods but remains traumatized. The 39-year-old policeman who took the stab wounds has just returned to work reinstating his anti-crime squad crew. "He's disgusted," sighs one of his colleagues. He still had 120 days of ITT and spent two months in a wheelchair. Sooner or later he risks crossing paths with one of the two men. He asked to be transferred far from Seine-Saint-Denis where he has worked for 20 years but he is not heard. "
The investigation, carried out by the SDPJ 93, would not have made it possible to precisely determine the origin of the brawl. An altercation between street vendors of cigarettes - the Saint-Denis market is a popular meeting place for smugglers - had been mentioned. According to a witness heard by investigators, the eviscerated man intervened after noticing sexual touching. A hypothesis which could not be confirmed.
