An urban rodeo turned to the confrontation this Friday, May 2 in the evening in Drancy: a man was injured by bullet and a police officer hit during a tense intervention, marked by summons and projectile jets. What really happened? An amateur video provides first answers.
A man was injured by ball, without a vital prognosis committed, Friday evening during a police intervention in Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis), during which a police officer was also injured on the back in falling, the Bobigny prosecutor’s office and a police source told AFP.
Urban Rodeo: a police intervention that degenerates
“During an intervention on an urban rodeo, an individual was injured by a police shooter”the prosecution told AFP, stressing that the exact sequence was still very “blur” and involved “Many stakeholders”. According to a police source, the police were “Taken to task by several virulent individuals”. And “crowd” formed around the agents who, “isolated”suffered “Multiple projectile jets”.
A police officer then used his service weapon repeatedly by firing in the air “To protect themselves and fled the attackers who pursued their actions despite this”reported the same source. “It was in this context that the administrative weapon was made”she continued, indicating that the injured man was transported to the hospital “In absolute emergency but without vital prognosis committed at this stage”.
-The police officer who fell on the ground injured on the back and was also transported to the hospital. “Securing the sector has been set up. Three arrests were carried out by reinforcements, for contempt and rebellion”it was specified.
An amateur video sheds light on the circumstances
A video circulating on social networks and shot near the Youi Gagarin city in Drancy shows an altercation between two police officers and several people around a motocross that fell on the roadway. One of the police officials, in possession of a firearm with which he proceeds to summons shots, is jostled by a man in red sweater.
During this hanging, a shot seems to leave. The images show the police officer falling on the road by holding his arm, the man in a red sweater then being out of scope. According to the Bobigny prosecution, it is this man who is injured by bullet.
Return to calm in the city of Youri Gagarin
Around 12:30 a.m., the premises were calm and the sleeping city, with the exception of a major police deployment in the street where the facts occurred, according to an AFP journalist on the spot. On X, the T1 tram, which passes in this area, reported an interruption of its traffic until the end of the service on Friday evening due to the intervention of the police.
