He suffered multiple fractures of the orbital floor and hand. A police officer was violently attacked and injured during an intervention for refusing to comply in Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis) on Saturday evening, AFP learned Monday from a police source and from the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office.
According to the account of a police source, police officers were following a motorcycle following a refusal to comply around 7:30 p.m. in the city of Clos Saint-Lazare in Stains, when a car tried to block them .
Hit by fifteen people
The people in the car then attacked them, injuring a police officer in the face. The latter pursued his attacker into the city where he was hit by fifteen people, according to the same source. His teammate fired five times into the air to disperse the crowd.
The officer was taken to hospital to treat his broken bones. An investigation was opened for refusal to comply and “violence in meetings against a person holding public authority”, according to the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office. This was entrusted to Departmental Security. Police custody of five people was lifted on Sunday for the continuation of the investigation.