“They wanted to kill me. It makes you think. »In a dismal car of a suburban train, Florent *, a 26-year-old policeman, saw himself die. Tuesday evening, when he returned home after the end of his service, this official assigned to the railway network brigade was attacked by four men who, according to him, recognized him. The victim and one of his colleagues pass in front of them when they board this train on line H at 22:26, linking Paris to Persan – Beaumont, in Val-d’Oise. They are “very noisy, unruly” and “yell”, says the police officer in his complaint, consulted by 20 minutes, filed this Wednesday morning.
After the train leaves, they glance in the direction of the policeman and his colleague. The latter gets off at Ermont Halte station, leaving Florent alone to complete his journey. The four men get up and go near him. “Look me in the eye,” one of them says. You know very well why we come to see you, we know very well where you work, you are a dirty cop of shit, a slut of condé. Florent gets up and tries to keep face. But the attackers start to beat him up. “They tell me that they are going to kill me, that they are going to box, strip me, kill me in the face. “
Saved by passengers
The young policeman “takes it in the face”. Two passengers come to assist him. “If these two people had not been there, I would no longer be here to talk about what happened,” said the victim today. The train stops at Saint-Leu station. The doors open. His attackers flee. Florent is taken care of by the emergency services and transported to the Simone-Veil hospital in Eaubonne. He suffers from a broken nose and multiple bruises on his face. The young civil servant is above all very “shocked”. “It’s not going too well, necessarily, they know my place of work, my place of destination to return home. “
An investigation was opened by the Pontoise prosecutor’s office. Contacted by 20 minutes, the public prosecutor indicates that four people were arrested and placed in custody for aggravated violence and theft with aggravated violence. According to our information, the suspects were arrested by the gendarmes of Psig de Pontoise and by the municipal police of Méry-sur-Oise while they were in the process of committing a theft. They were handed over to the investigators of the departmental security of Val-d.’Oise. Investigations are continuing to determine the exact circumstances of the facts.
* The victim’s first name has been changed