“The investigation is actively continuing to identify, locate and challenge the authors of the facts,” said the prosecution. The two police officers, who were trying to stop in the middle of a crowd a person suspected of theft on Wednesday evening in Lyon, were taken to task.
Le Monde with AFP
A foreign suspect briefly arrested, then put “out of the case”, after the attack on two police officers on Wednesday evening in Lyon, should be expelled, we learned, Sunday, July 24, in the entourage of the Minister from the inside, Gérald Darmanin.
Earlier Sunday, the minister announced on Twitter that “following the unacceptable attack on the police in Lyon, police operations take place. One of the offenders is foreign, he was arrested. On my instruction, he was placed in detention and will be expelled”. “Foreign offenders have no place in France,” continued the minister.
In connection with events or not, known for many implications: theft, violence, death threat to pers … https://t.co/rm5jtzspve
– gdarmanin (@Gérald Darmanin)
out of way
Solicited by the France-Presse agency (AFP), the Lyon prosecutor’s office said, however, that “the person placed in police custody yesterday [Saturday] as part of the investigation in Lyon of the Chief of Violence in The police at Place Gabriel-Péri on July 20, was released today “.
“It turns out that it has been completely out of all in the context of the investigations carried out. The investigation is actively continuing to identify, locate and challenge the authors of the facts”, specifies the prosecution. According to Mr. Darmanin’s entourage on Sunday afternoon, the suspect is in “administrative detention center since [Sunday] morning”.
In a second tweet , M. Darmanin wrote:
“In connection with events or not, known for numerous implications: theft, violence, death threat to a person custody of the public authority, detention of drugs, violence in meeting … This individual has nothing to do in our country which is generous if we respect it. “
According to the newspaper Le Progrès, the suspect is 26 years old and is in an irregular situation.
The ecological mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle, reacted in turn on Twitter by accusing Mr. Darmanin of” Dredge [r] openly the extreme right by taking up his words and his ideas “and” pass [R] in addition to the rule of law by providing for Expel a foreign offender without delay the results of the investigations “. “Another symbol of a dismaying and disturbing drift,” he concluded.
support for the police
The two police officers were injured on Wednesday evening in Lyon on Wednesday evening by trying to arrest a person suspected of theft, in the middle of a crowd who violently took them to task, according to a police source.
On a video of the scene broadcast on social networks, relayed by the Alliance union and the Lyonmag information site, we can see three plainclothes police officers, two men and a woman, wiping blows and projectile jets in front of the ‘Entrance of a mini-market in the sensitive district of the Guillotière, in the city center.
Several right and far right political leaders (the Republicans and National Rally) had provided their support from the police this week.
The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, traveling Friday in Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône), said that it was necessary to “absolutely be able to sanction these behaviors which are not acceptable”. M me terminal added:
“We must respect the Republic, and that, it goes first by respecting the police. There will be additional means. We will naturally put the means that must be and if we need to strengthen In these neighborhoods, we will do it. “