A second suspectsuspected of having participated in theattack on three plainclothes police officers on July 20 in the Guillotière district of Lyonwas indicted on Monday, August 1 according to the Lyon prosecution.
Provisional incarceration
This suspect, whose age has not been specified, has been indicted for “aggravated willful violence against a police officer”according to the prosecution.
“He requested a delay to prepare his defense in the context of the debate relating to his pre-trial detention required by the prosecution and the investigating judge”which will take place on Thursday, the prosecution said.
“In the meantime, he has been the subject of a provisional incarceration”we added from the same source.
A first suspect already arrested on Tuesday
On Tuesday, a 26-year-old first suspect had already been indictedon the same count, and remanded in custody.
In an irregular situation, without a criminal record, he “did not dispute the facts” and has “apologized”had indicated Me Laurent Bohé, lawyer for the victims.
Violent attack on July 20
Two police officers were injured on the evening of July 20 while trying with a colleague to arrest a person suspected of theft, in the middle of a crowd who violently attacked them.
On a video posted on social networks, we can see three plainclothes police officers, two men and a woman, being beaten and thrown by projectiles in front of the entrance to a convenience store in the sensitive Guillotière district.
A first suspect had first been arrested and then exonerated. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin reacted on Twitter after the arrest of this first suspect, also a foreigner, indicating that he would be expelled.
Once this one was out of the question, he had written, in a second tweet: “in connection with the events or not, known for many questionings […] this individual has no place in our country”.
Gérald Darmanin in support of local residents
Saturday, Gérald Darmanin, during a visit to Lyon where he notably met, in the prefecture, residents of La Guillotière and the three police officers attacked, had insisted on the need to strengthen the procedures aimed at expelling the “delinquent aliens”.
In a letter sent Monday to the mayor of Lyon, Gérald Darmanin, who will return to Lyon on September 5, reiterated his criticisms of mayor Grégory Doucet (EELV) on security issues. He asked him in particular for an increase in the number of municipal police, “which need to be considerably strengthened”and an expansion of the sectors covered by video surveillance.
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