According to the Paris Prefecture, one of the people who attacked police officers was touched by shots. He was “taken care of by help”, “in absolute emergency but without committed vital prognosis”.
The case is now in the hands of justice. A man was injured by bullet, without committed vital prognosis, on the evening of Friday, May 2, during a police intervention in Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis), the Paris police headquarters and the Bobigny prosecutor’s office said. During this control operation, a police officer was also injured on the back by falling, said the prefecture. Here’s what we know about this affair.
Police officers were “taken to task” during a check
Friday in the early evening, police officers have “Control of a two-wheeler in the town of Drancy” in the frame “of an operation to combat rodeos”explained the prefecture of police at Radio France. During their intervention, “The police were taken to task by several virulent individuals, a crowd having formed around the crew thus being isolated and undergoing multiple projectile jets”according to the prefecture. For its part, the prosecution insists on the character “vague” of the sequence involving “Many stakeholders”.
A video circulating on social networks and shot near the Drancy Youri-Gagarin city shows an altercation between two police officers and several people around a electric blue 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, we hear several shots as well as many insults made by the person filming the scene with regard to the police. We then see a police officer falling on the road by holding his arm. The man in red sweater is then out of scope.
One man was injured and three others were arrested
It is in this context that one of the police officers has “Uss his administrative weapon repeatedly by pulling in the air to protect themselves and fled the attackers who pursued their actions despite this”justified the police headquarters. This specifies that “One of the injured attackers was taken care of by the emergency services, and transported by ambulance in a hospital environment, in absolute emergency but without committed vital prognosis”. According to the Bobigny prosecution, it is the man we see with a red sweater on the video that was injured by bullet. As for the police officer who dropped, he was “Wounded on the back and transported in a hospital environment”according to the police headquarters.
This same source adds that “Police from the reinforcement suffered mortar fire” and that three men were arrested “For contempt and rebellion”. Finally, police officers “Arrested an individual and the vehicle remained on site”tells Axel Ronde, spokesperson for the CFTC Police union in BFMTV. While the police present on site “were responsible for bringing this vehicle back to the police station for the investigation”, “A dozen or fifteen individuals tried to recover the motorcycle”.
Around midnight and a half, the places were calm. An important police system has been deployed in the street where the facts occurred, according to an AFP journalist on the spot. The city of Drancy has announced that he “Established street mediators” in the area concerned and that the neighborhood assistant went there after the facts, according to The Parisian.
This intervention has aroused political reactions
The mayor of the city, Aude Lagarde, believes that “This emotion should not lead to taking additional risks to the neighborhood or our young people”. The councilor “Call dads and moms to mobilize to protect all our young people from all drifts, tonight and in the coming days”writes the elected UDI in a publication on her social networks to “Do not risk another drama”.
“Nothing justifies that we are opposed by violence to a police checkfor his part reacted the prefect of Paris police, Laurent Nuñez, on the social network X. “Justice will make all the light on the conditions under which my police had to protect their physical integrity.” For his part, Eric Ciotti, deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes and ally of the National Rally, said “bring [son] Total support for police officers wildly attacked in Drancy “ on his x account.
