He is suspected of having participated on Sunday in the violent attack on the police in Bonneuil-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) with fireworks mortars: a 16-year-old must be presented to a judge in the evening of this Tuesday with a view to his possible indictment on Wednesday.
Five other young people aged between 14 and 16, who had also been taken into custody, were released. “We have not gathered at this stage serious and consistent evidence against them,” said the Créteil prosecutor’s office. “The investigations are continuing to identify all the participants,” added the prosecution, specifying that they do not yet know the number of “active participants” out of a total of “forty young people” gathered at the time of the facts.
If the mortar had hit my back directly my column would have exploded
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In the wake of the violence on Sunday, an investigation, entrusted to the Departmental Security, was opened for “attempted murder on a person holding public authority, complicity in this attempt, aggravated violence, death threats and recording and broadcasting violent images “.
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On Sunday, three police officers on patrol from the Créteil anti-crime squad were attacked by young people who targeted them with fireworks mortars, in Bonneuil-sur-Marne, a town of nearly 16,000 inhabitants located at a distance of fifteen kilometers south-east of Paris. One of the police officers, aged 37, was burned in the second degree in the lower back by a fireworks mortar, without being life threatening. He was given 15 days of ITT.
“If the mortar had hit my back directly, my column would have exploded. If I had not thrown myself to the side, my face and my jaw were leaving. This reflex saved my life”, testified this policeman in a interview given to Parisian, indicating suffering from “a wound 38 cm long and 13 high”. His two colleagues were also injured in the eardrums and were delivered 15 and 10 days of ITT, according to the prosecution which specified that they “presented hearing loss”.
Coming to support the police at the Créteil police station, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin denounced a “real assassination attempt”.
“We came close to the tragedy in Bonneuil”, he assured Monday evening in front of cameras, praising the “courage” of the police officers of the department. “Their courage on Sunday shows that there is no lost quarter of the Republic and that the police are everywhere,” he said.
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