A simple altercation in a bar, in which he was not even involved, has led a police officer to the hospital. Victim of a fracture tibia-fibula, the SRC, who was in civilian clothes at the time of the incident, is still under shock and has been prescribed 45 days of ITT. The events took place in the night of 11 and 12 June last, in a bar in le Mans, in the Sarthe, tells Le Parisien. Present on the spot after having celebrated the departure of a colleague, two CRS in civil intervened to calm an altercation outside of the establishment. One of the two ask the participants to calm down and explains that they are police officers.
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it is Impossible to know if it is this precision that will trigger the surge of violence that is to follow. Because when you go inside the bar, police officers are violently assaulted. A CRS is taken to task by a man. “He was on the ground, position foetus, and he received a rain of blows,” says his colleague, who must cope with a woman aggressive, in the face of that it does not replicate when he is hit at least once in the face. A witness and the public prosecutor have confirmed this version of events. “I didn’t want to hit her because she was a woman, black at that. With the particular context of the time, I didn’t want that we speak of police violence,” said the CRS in the PV of the incident, according to Le Parisien.
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An attitude that includes Frédéric Lagache, deputy delegate general of the syndicat police Alliance, according to which “some colleagues now prefer to refrain from responding to violence, fear of being in the galley”, as protests against police violence have multiplied in France in recent weeks. A judicial inquiry was opened for “the violence has resulted in an ITT exceeding eight days in the meeting and in a state of intoxication manifest on person agent of the public authority,” says the daily. Two people have been remanded in custody and under judicial control in this folder.
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