Two police officers were severely beaten by about fifteen individuals during an intervention at a car rodeo in a sensitive area of Valenciennes on Sunday, said the police union Alliance.
“Michel Lalande, prefect of the North, gives his full support to the police officers who were the subject of a cowardly assault this afternoon in Valenciennes, they intervened to put an end to an urban rodeo”, tweeted the prefecture, adding that the prefect “strongly” condemned this aggression.
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Knocked down
According to Arnauld Boutelier, Alliance regional deputy secretary general, the emergency police control carried out by the two police officers in the “difficult” district of Briquette, was “disturbed by around fifteen individuals who came into contact with them”, and none of which had been arrested in the evening. “The police were beaten and molested, their vehicle damaged and equipment stolen”, but no weapons, he said, accusing the attackers, who fled before the arrival of reinforcements, of having wanted to “make police, lynch them”.
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Hit including to the ground with kicks and punches, the police, who lodged a complaint, came out with bruises, the most affected, in the knee, having been released from the hospital in the early evening, said Arnaud Boutelier.
Believing that the attackers should be “quickly identified” via video surveillance, he hoped that they would have “the sanction they deserve. That is why we are asking for minimum sentences” for attacks against the police, a- he added.
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