a man in custody after the assault of an off-duty policeman

A man in his thirties was placed in police custody, Saturday April 30, after the aggression in Bordeaux of a police officer who was walking with his family outside the service, learned franceinfo from a police source.

The motive for the attack, which occurred during Martinique, is unclear. According to this source, the policeman and his family would have burst out laughing during a discussion, which the man, who was passing in the street at the time, would have taken for a mockery. He then began to invective the group, made up of the policeman in his fifties, his wife and two daughters aged 12 and 10.

The policeman intervened and declined his status as a policeman by showing his card. According to his statements, that’s when the assault began. An amateur video relayed on social networks shows the attacker punching the policeman and breaking a glass bottle on his head. Arrested in the suburbs of Bordeaux after the facts, the attacker, known to the services for facts related to narcotics, summer taken into custody for “violence with a weapon”.