Two sections of the CRS 8, this elite unit of the national police, will be sent this Friday evening to Vénissieux to maintain order and prevent urban violence from breaking out.
A man is dead and another is between life and death, after being hit by police fire inside a vehicle, on the night of Thursday to Friday in Vénissieux (Rhône), in the suburbs Lyon, we learned from a police source and from the prosecution.
The facts took place around midnight, in the parking lot of a supermarket, while the police were trying to control a stationary vehicle, reported stolen. “Colleagues immediately found it suspicious, they passed the plate on file and realized that it was a vehicle declared stolen”details in this sense a police source.
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But the situation quickly degenerated, the driver of the vehicle refusing to submit to the control. The latter has “engaged the reverse gear then the forward gear by hitting a policeman who was thrown on the front bonnet of the vehicle”specifies the Lyon public prosecutor’s office in a press release.
To protect himself and stop the offender in his tracks, the latter used his weapon, in circumstances that remain to be established. A second policeman also opened fire, in protection of his colleague. The car finally ended its race a hundred meters further, going to fit into another vehicle.
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Aged 26 and 20
The police discovered two very seriously injured men in the passenger compartment of the vehicle and provided them with first aid. Quickly dispatched to the scene, the firefighters could only note the death of the passenger while the driver, seriously hit in the head, was transported to the hospital in absolute emergency. The two men, a certain Raihane S. and Adam B., aged 26 and 20 respectively, were “very unfavorablyknown to the police according to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin. The official hit, more slightly injured in the legs, was sent to the hospital for examination.
Two investigations were opened by the Lyon public prosecutor’s office, which visited the scene. The first for “receiving theft”, “aggravated refusal to comply” and “violence with a weapon against law enforcement officers” and entrusted to the DDSP. The second for “violence with a weapon by persons holding public authority resulting in death without intention to give it”, entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN). The two officials who used their weapons are currently heard by this service under police custody.
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In addition, two sections of the CRS 8 – i.e. 40 men -, this elite unit of the national policewill be sent this Friday evening to Vénissieux to maintain order and prevent urban violence from breaking out, we learn from the national police.
The police union Alliance, which went there to support the agents of the southern division of Lyon denounces “the trivialization of violence against the police, with individuals who no longer hesitate to attempt the life of the police for extremely futile reasons.»
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On the night of August 8 to 9, three BAC police officers had already been overthrown in Toulouse by a 24-year-old individual refusing to submit to a check. The young thug then tried to take Highway 64 in the wrong direction before being stopped by fire from a second patrol called in as reinforcements and on which he was preparing, once again, to go for it, even if it means killing. A few days earlier, on August 4, in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (Val-de-Marne), three other police officers were injured in similar circumstances.
A final balance sheet obtained Le Figaro testifies to the worrying rise in refusals to comply on the territory. It reveals in particular that no less than 26,320 refusals to comply were listed in 2021 by the police and the gendarmes. That’s more than one every thirty minutes.
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