Bagneux: taken to task, a police officer from Val-de-Marne shoots in the air

Electric atmosphere this Tuesday evening, in Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine). A police officer allegedly fired several shots in the air, during a clash with a group of young people, some of whom were armed with iron bars, according to initial information. Another is injured.

At the origin of this heat stroke: a banal police check. A little before 7 p.m., on the edge of the towns of Bagneux and Cachan, an anti-crime brigade (ferry) from Val-de-Marne is preparing to check two people on a scooter.

One fled on the handlebars of the two-wheeler, in the direction of Cachan. The second scampers off, on foot, towards Bagneux. The ferry follows him but loses sight of him.

Arrived in the city of the Abbé-Grégoire, more precisely in the square Montesquieu, the police would have found themselves in front of fifteen or twenty people, armed therefore with iron bars for some. This remains to be confirmed but one of them may have been holding a handgun. These young people were apparently busy fighting.

The moped in custody

Quickly, it was a group made up of “about forty individuals”, according to a judicial source, that the police were confronted. Two of them were taken to task. Until one gets beaten up.

To free his colleague from his attackers, the second policeman would have drawn his weapon and fired four times in the air. The group dispersed but the moped rider, who fled, was eventually arrested shortly after and taken into police custody. The police headquarters announced around 9 pm four arrests in total, “alleged perpetrators of this aggression”.

As for the official having received blows, “he is seriously injured”, specifies the same judicial source. He was hospitalized.