“It’s a whole profession that is in shock.” The emotion is extremely strong this Sunday afternoon in the police station of Roubaix (North), after the accident which caused the death this morning of four people, including three police officers.
Overwhelmed by emotion, some police officers approached by journalists on the spot are even unable to express themselves. Since the beginning of the afternoon, people have been flocking to the police station to lay wreaths in tribute to the three police officers killed. A minute of silence was observed by the colleagues of the deceased officers.
“We really do a special job, where there are no small insignificant missions. Death sometimes strikes when you don’t expect it, any mission involves a risk, ”reacted the national secretary of the Unit-SGP union, Jean-Christophe Couvy.
Manon, Steven and Paul
Their names were Manon, Steven and Paul. They were 24 and 25 years old. They were “young, voluntary, enthusiastic” police officers, in the words of Frédéric Veaux, director general of the national police, who went to the Roubaix police station on Sunday, where a psychological cell was opened. “The deceased police officer had not even been established yet,” he said.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin is expected on site this Monday morning around 8:30 a.m.
What happened ?
It was around 7 a.m. this Sunday morning when a vehicle and a police car collided near Villeneuve-d’Ascq. Four people were killed by the violence of the shock (three police officers and the driver of the other vehicle). Two people were seriously injured.
One was in the police vehicle. It is a 16-year-old girl, whom the police transported to the hospital to be examined as a “potential victim”. Transported to the hospital, “these days are no longer in danger”, according to Frédéric Veaux. The other injured passenger was also hospitalized. He was in the other vehicle. We don’t know more about his condition at this time.
Unfavorably known to the police
According to the first elements of the investigation, which remain to be confirmed, the third-party vehicle was arriving in the wrong direction and the impact was frontal. The two occupants of this vehicle would be unfavorably known to the police for alcohol, use of narcotics and insults.
So many elements that will still have to be confirmed or invalidated in the coming hours by the public prosecutor.
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