Investigation open in Lyon after police shots

Anti-religious brigade (BAC) police officers have been targeted by shooting Monday night in the Duchère district.

Le Monde with AFP

Three police officers of an anti-crime brigade crew (BAC) wiped out shots, Monday, October 25, in the Lyonnais district of the Duchère, who did not hurt any injury, while they were watching a narcotic trafficking , according to the Prefecture of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. An investigation for homicide attempt was opened.

“The events that took place tonight at the Dunda [Sensitive district of the 9 e district of the city] are serious, since one or more individuals deliberately shot on national police officers” , said Pascal Mailhos in front of the press, stating that “fortunately, none is injured”. The police were targeted on the occasion of “a conventional surveillance of a deal of deal”, said the prefect.

Tonight, one or more individuals opened fire against 3 police officers in the intervention tray near a deal point … https://t.co/zy2hla7z0k //p>- prefethone (@ prefect of the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the Rhône)

“An extreme fact serious “

“we are in a very strong deal of deal and, undoubtedly, it is in connection with actions [against the trafficking of narcotics] that took place in recent days, and in particular last week,” said the representative of the State, adding that research was underway to find the authors of the shots.

according to the regional daily progress , the shots have occurred in the early evening, before the neighborhood is closed by the police, who did call for reinforcements of the raid. The Mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet (Europe Ecology-Les Verts, EELV), went to the scene. “It’s an extremely serious fact that these shots were obviously made to kill,” he said in front of the press.

The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, lamented on Tuesday the absence of surveillance cameras in the district of the Duchère, and sent to the mayor a mail inviting him to install it.

/Media reports.