two police officers attacked during an intervention

Two police officers were severely beaten by about fifteen individuals during an intervention on a car rodeo in a sensitive area of ​​Valenciennes on Sunday December 13, said the police union Alliance.

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“Michel Lalande, prefect of the North, gives his full support to the police officers who were the subject of a cowardly assault this afternoon in Valenciennes, they intervened to put an end to an urban rodeo”, tweeted the prefecture, which did not provide more details in view of the opening of an investigation. The prefect “Strongly condemns these actions which justice will have to know soonAdded the tweet.

According to Arnauld Boutelier, Alliance regional deputy secretary general, the emergency police check carried out by the two police officers in the neighborhood “difficult” de la Briquette, was “Disturbed by about fifteen individuals who came into contact with them”, and none of which had been arrested in the evening.

Struck including on the ground

“The police were beaten and molested, their vehicle damaged and equipment stolen”, but no weapons, he said, accusing the attackers, who fled before the arrival of reinforcements, of having wanted “To make police, to lynch them”.

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Hit including to the ground with kicks and punches, the police, who lodged a complaint, came out with bruises, the most affected, in the knee, having been released from the hospital in the early evening, said Arnauld Boutelier.

Believing that abusers should be “Quickly identified” via CCTV he wished they had “The sanction they deserve. This is why we are asking for minimum sentences ” for attacks against the police, he added.

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