By Le Figaro with AFP
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Two men, suspected of having violently assaulted three police officers Saturday, February 4 in the evening in Toulon, one of whom was recognized for 30 days of total incapacity for work (ITT), were placed in police custody, said Monday the Toulon prosecutor Samuel Finielz.
The two suspects, born in 1991 and 1994, “both acknowledge having been present at the scene“where the facts were committed but”indicate, however, that they intervened in an altercation between several individuals“, to try to separate them, he detailed.
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“Severe medical consequences”
A version “which seems to be denied in the state of the investigationscarried out using CCTV footage, added the prosecutor. The assaulted police officers, who were off duty, said they were leaving a drinking establishment in central Toulon on Saturday evening when they were stopped by a group of several people, he said.
«These three to four individuals, according to the CCTV images, immediately questioned them about their qualities as police officers” before “commit particularly serious violence against them“, underlined the prosecutor. Following this attack on thesevere medical consequencesFor the police, two of them have a total incapacity for work of ten days while the third was arrested thirty days, said Samuel Finielz.
Placement in pre-trial detention
We’re going “request the opening of a judicial investigation for several counts of offense“, notably “violence against a national police officer resulting in total incapacity for work for more than eight days with aggravating circumstance“, he completed. An offense punishable by 10 years in prison, recalled the prosecutor.
The opening of a judicial investigation was also requested by the prosecution for “outrages allegedly committed at the start of the altercation» as well as for the «robberyfrom the mobile phone of one of the police officers. “Given the extreme gravity and the absolutely inadmissible nature of the acts that were committed“, the floor “will take requisitions for placement in pre-trial detention“Said Samuel Finielz, specifying that the investigations would continue to identify the other people likely to have participated in this attack.