A police car. (drawing) – DENIS CHARLET / AFP
A policeman, wounded in the head by a projectile during the night of May 13 to 14 during an intervention in
Rive-de-Gier (Loire), left the hospital where he had operated last week on Friday, we learned from concordant sources. “A total work interruption (ITT) of thirty days has been provisionally served on the 51-year-old chief brigadier of the Saint-Chamond (Loire) police station, who should not, however, return to work for several months,” said a source policewoman.
The public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, David Charmatz, for his part, confirmed the referral to an examining magistrate last Tuesday, as part of the opening of a “judicial investigation for willful injuries on anyone custodian of public authority, with weapon and in a meeting, resulting in an ITT of more than eight days ”, offenses punishable by ten years’ imprisonment.
During an intervention for nocturnal noise on the night of May 13 to 14, shortly after midnight in Rive-de-Gier, the police officer, father of two children, had received a projectile of an unspecified nature in the head. He had lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground, in a street of this town in the Saint-Etienne agglomeration. Taken to the Saint-Etienne University Hospital for surgery, he was placed in an artificial coma for a few hours. No one had been arrested on Friday as part of this investigation for which the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) of the Loire and the judicial police were co-entered.