Policeman beaten up: opening of a judicial investigation for "attempted murder"
Judicial information was opened on Thursday for "attempted murder" after the assault on Tuesday evening of a policeman, off duty and in civilian clothes, who was returning to his home by train in Val-d'Oise, AFP learned from of the parquet floor of Pontoise. The prosecutor requested the provisional detention of the four people arrested following the attack on the police officer, at the end of their police custody. Three of the defendants are known to the justice services, said the prosecution. The investigation was entrusted to the departmental security of Val-d'Oise.
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The facts took place on Tuesday in a train at the Saint-Leu-la-Forêt station (Val-d'Oise), shortly before 11 p.m. The victim, a 26-year-old man, a civil servant in the Ile-de-France network brigade (BRF), was attacked by a group of four “African-type” individuals according to his testimony. “We know where you work and where you live, you're a fucking dirty cop. What are you doing in our area? “, first launched one of them. But the discussion quickly ended and the first blows began to rain. "They said they were going to kill me, kill me, because I'm a dirty shitty cop", continues the policeman in his complaint. The man was then beaten up, especially in the face. His attackers also tried to pick his pockets, but the policeman resisted until the intervention of two passengers to help him.
'Very traumatized'
Arrived at Saint-Leu station, the four attackers fled. Supported by the SNCF then by the police officers of Ermont and the firefighters of Taverny, the victim was taken to the Simone-Veil hospital in Eaubonne. The man suffers from multiple bruises, a broken nose and complains of pain in his right shoulder. While carrying his service weapon, he chose not to use it. The police officer filed a complaint at the Ermont police station for aggravated willful violence. A few hours after the events, the four suspects, aged 17, 20, 23 and 25, were arrested by a police patrol from Pontoise, for attempted aggravated robbery. Placed in police custody, three of them admitted to the police officer's participation in the attack. Judicial information was also opened, in particular for the counts of "theft with violence" and "extortion".
"The Prefecture of Police sends its support to the police officer attacked and injured by several individuals as he returned to his home yesterday (Tuesday) evening," tweeted the Paris police headquarters. "Today this policeman is very traumatized, he knows that his attackers know everything about him and it's terrifying," says a Parisian agent. “The police live in hiding these days, it's a reality. For some, wearing a mask is a blessing. There is no longer a split between professional and personal life, laments the national delegate of the SGP Police-Force-Ouvrière Unit union, Linda Kebbab. We see it with the tags lately. These guys have our names, our addresses, they share our photos and those of our families on social networks. »
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For several days, in fact, the heads of the police have been put at a price. In Savigny-le-Temple (Seine-et-Marne), tags calling in particular to "cut off the head of a police officer" and "rape a policewoman" were discovered on the walls of a building on Saturday. “By calling for their rape and their murder, we want to call for the murder and the rape of the Republic”, reacted the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, about fifteen individuals attacked the Villeneuve-d'Ascq police station with fireworks. On Wednesday morning, the Paris police chief, Didier Lallement, filed a complaint for new insult tags discovered in the Beaugrenelle district. So many incidents that only accentuate the "police malaise" that many of them denounce.
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