Shock and indignation after the ultra-violent assault of two police officers in Herblay

lefigaro ^ | 10/08/2020 | Jean Chichizola and Angélique Négroni

[xomething]

An extremely violent attack. The assault on two policemen from the Cergy branch of the Versailles PJ on Wednesday in Herblay (Val-d'Oise) sent shock waves through the police and public opinion on Thursday. Three suspects are wanted by hundreds of police officers, for "attempted murder of a person holding public authority in an organized gang".

Thursday, in front of the Cergy-Pontoise police station, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, denounced a "massacre", "two acts of terrible savagery, (...) a savagery that has become daily, against the police, and of which no one could ignore that they were police officers ”.

The course of events will be refined but the known elements are overwhelming. At 10:23 p.m. on Wednesday, the Val-d'Oise Information and Command Center (CIC 95) received a call from a man in shock. He explains that he is from the PJ and that he has just been assaulted by three individuals, along with one of his colleagues, who lies unconscious by his side. The two police officers were investigating an attempted kidnapping between thugs in Argenteuil (ten kilometers from Herblay), which the Pontoise prosecutor's office had seized with the PJ that morning. In this context, they wanted, according to a police source, to carry out "checks" in an industrial zone of Herblay, place of various trafficking (drugs and trafficking of all kinds by travelers).

In civilian clothes and in an unmarked car, the police are then, according to the testimony of one of the two attacked officials, approached by surprise by three people of African, mixed-race and North African type who take them first for people from the trip. The two policemen present their cards and identify themselves as belonging to the national police. "But far from dissuading the criminals," notes a source close to the investigation, "this identification seems to have unleashed violence."

Extracted from their vehicle, the police officers are severely beaten. One, a 45-year-old brigadier-major, has a dislocated shoulder and suffers from a head trauma. The other, a 30-year-old peacekeeper, has a fractured skull. The criminals then seize the service weapons of their victims and shoot them. The brigadier-major was injured in the calf and right tibia. The peacekeeper was hit by four bullets in the legs and pelvis, which cut an artery and triggered internal bleeding. Thursday, his vital prognosis was engaged, the doctors still reserving their diagnosis. The three attackers leave with weapons, the brigadier-major's cell phone and a portable police radio.

Investigators are particularly interested in a suspect identified under strange circumstances. At 10:14 p.m. on Wednesday, nine minutes before the attacked policeman's call, CIC 95 received another call: an unknown person reported that people were being attacked in the Herblay industrial zone by "gypsies" claiming to be police officers with arms and armbands. This correspondent was identified by his number. Aged 28 and living in Hauts-de-Seine, he is known to the police, in particular for drug trafficking. Investigators question his involvement in the assault. All the protagonists in the attempted kidnapping in Argenteuil will also be heard.

In a message to all police officers, the head of the national police, Frédéric Veaux, denounces "an attempted murder in particularly savage and odious conditions". For the national secretary of Synergy Officers, Benjamin Iseli, “even if some argue otherwise, the wildness of society is real. We do not hesitate to run into the police and shoot them! " General Secretary of the Union of National Police Commissioners, David le Bars believes that “this aggression is stunned. This is unprecedented and we are witnessing an escalation of violence ". (Google translate)

Gérald Darmanin, Thursday, in front of the Cergy police station where the two police officers assaulted the day before were stationed. The interior minister denounced a "massacre". Frédéric NAIZOT / PHOTOPQR / LE PARISIEN / MAXPPP

[Robert DeLong]

Or is it the religion of pieces? 8>)

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

[SES1066]

Cergy-Pontoise is a rather distant suburb of Paris, France, north and west from city center and just north of the Seine River.

[pierrem15]

These wiseguys are about to find out what the French police are really like. Any kind of violence resulting in a shooting is actually quite rare in Europe. The cops will look the other way at a lot of petty crime, but any violence will usually draw the full attention of the law, and there is no BLM or Bill of Rights restraining the police in cases such as this.

If they're lucky, they'll be killed when apprehended.

[Grampa Dave]

What is a person holding public authority in an organized gang?

Democrat!

[BenLurkin]

[BipolarBob]

What part of Texas is Herblay?

[Hulka]

Swedish Amish?

[Grampa Dave]

BOL! Thanks!

[Menehune56]

[Olog-hai]

Ah, the old moloko plus . . . sharpens you up and gets you ready for a bit of the old dirty 20-to-1 (aka the old ultraviolent).

[bobby.223]

Nice nOOb. You might figure it out.

[Salvavida]

“La Marseillaise” gives them the properresponse. That is the real tragedy here.