The investigation following the attack on three plainclothes police officers on July 20 in the Guillotière district of Lyon has just made progress on Tuesday. The Lyon prosecutor’s office indicates that a 26-year-old man, arrested on July 24, was charged with “aggravated violence against police officers”. He was remanded in custody on Tuesday.
This young man in an irregular situation would therefore be one of the people who participated in this attack by the police, who were then trying to arrest a person suspected of theft. Two of the three police officers were injured on July 20 on Place Gabriel Péri (Lyon 3rd), in the middle of a crowd that violently attacked them.
Two of the three police officers did not return to duty
A first suspect had been arrested and then exonerated. During a public hearing of the judge of freedoms of detention, the second suspect, who has no criminal record, “did not dispute the facts” and “apologized”, described to AFP Laurent Bohé, lawyer for the three victims.
The three police officers (a woman and two men) are “happy to know that a first person has been arrested”, confides Laurent Bohé. The latter adds that if one of them has resumed his service, the other two are still arrested. “Investigations are actively continuing to identify, locate and arrest the other perpetrators,” Lyon prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet told AFP.
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