Wednesday afternoon, place Victor Hugo, in Angoulême. Two police patrols, joined by a third, intervene to restore calm following a brawl between two families.
Tensions seem to come down, when “an individual has arisen to do battle”, details Nicolas Legeay, departmental secretary of the SGP-FO 16 unit union. “A colleague intervened and he was kicked “, he adds. The 23-year-old rebels, refuses to be handcuffed but ends up being arrested.
In the confusion, according to the union, two police officers were injured and were prescribed 6 and 4 days of ITT. Only one of the two police officers affected stopped work. In this case, the Angoulême prosecutor’s office opted for an alternative to prosecution. And the young man involved, unknown to justice, will have to do a citizenship course.
For Nicolas Legeay, this kind of measures are taken “in the context of low gravity offenses. However, this is not the case here. It’s not just a rebellion, there were punches and kicks on colleagues. We are appalled to see the follow-up given “, he said. “Certainly, he is unknown to justice, but that is not a reason. He will say to himself that in the end, it is not much and he will do it again. The colleagues are in shock.”
The union split a leaflet circulated on social networks which concludes as follows: “Dear colleagues, who’s next?”
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