On April 27, 2020, two bikers from the public order and traffic department, attached to the Paris police headquarters, tried to control a scooter, in Colombes, in the Hauts-de-Seine. The driver of the two-wheeler refuses to comply, and tries to sow the bikers who took care of him. The suspect ended up abandoning his scooter, fleeing on foot, getting into a vehicle and disappearing.
But the two police officers from the motorcycling company spot him again, the same day, while they are assisting their colleagues during a new traffic check. They don’t have time to start the procedure when a black BMW swerves in their direction to hit them head-on. The motorcyclists are seriously injured.
(The Telegram/Dimitri Rouchon-Borie)
Palestine
In the BMW, a man, who has just pledged allegiance to Daesh, and who declares having hit them voluntarily, “because of the situation in Palestine”. The suspect, who was not on S, was carrying knives in his car. He will soon be tried before the special Assize Court of Paris, for attempted assassinations of persons holding public authority in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
Two and a half years of care
Among the police officers injured this day in April 2020, Benjamin Mercier. “Six months of hospitalization, months of rehabilitation”, he recalls today. Two and a half years, in total, to recover as much as possible from the attack. And find the police, a little further from the field, in Brittany, this time, in Saint-Brieuc. On July 14, 2023, he was decorated with the gold level, “for his pugnacity and the courage he showed that day”.
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