A minor will be tried for violence and aggravated damage while an adult will be presented to a magistrate this Tuesday. Both are suspected of being involved in the attack on a police car on Saturday during a march against police violence, AFP learned Monday from the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The minor is summoned before a children’s judge for violence and degradation aggravated by the circumstances that they were committed in a meeting and against a person holding public authority or in the public interest, indicated the public prosecutor.
Three people released
Concerning the adult, his custody which began on Saturday shortly after the demonstration continued on Sunday and Monday until the end of the afternoon, before the prosecution decided to transfer him. The public prosecutor will indicate this Tuesday the legal action taken.
In this case, five people in total were placed in police custody, but the prosecution specified that the three others, a man, a woman and a minor, were released because they were exonerated by the investigations entrusted to them. to Territorial Security.
Attacked “with iron bars”
The entourage of police chief Laurent Nuñez also indicated that he had decided not to open an administrative investigation into the police officer who took out his weapon to force back demonstrators, while his car was attacked. “There is no suspicion of professional misconduct” on the part of the official, it was added. “The police chief called each of the officials [qui se trouvaient dans le véhicule pris à partie] to congratulate them and express their support,” added the entourage.
On Saturday, during this demonstration starting from the Gare du Nord, a police car, stuck in traffic, was attacked “with an iron bar”, according to the police headquarters, by several individuals dressed in black. One of the police officers then briefly got out of the vehicle, gun in hand, to keep the demonstrators at bay.
An intervention by other police officers then “made it possible to stop the action and shelter” the police officers present in the vehicle, the prefecture explained. Four police officers were in the vehicle and three of them were “slightly injured” in the neck, Laurent Nuñez said on Saturday.