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Once again on the night of Saturday July 1 to Sunday July 2, several police stations and barracks were targeted. The police and gendarmes are on the front line, with face-to-face encounters of extreme violence. Some of them were also targeted by gunfire. Testimonials.
A policeman on the ground, hit and then evacuated, injured like hundreds of others. This official whom we met was working in Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône), when he was targeted, hit in the legs by shotgun ammunition. “An armed individual appeared from a thicket, who moved away, who aimed at us and who fired“, testifies the policeman.
737 members of the security forces injured since the start of the riots
An experienced police officer experienced the riots of 2005. In post near Montpellier (Hérault), he observed the same resurgence of violence. “Jreceived a cobblestone which attacked my right elbow, it crushed my tendons and the joint. What also touched me was the age of these young people who violently demonstrate“, he indicates. A Marseille policeman notes, him, an escalation in the use of the weapons. “There are long guns that have been stolen, handguns. The guys were on the scooters with guns drawn. (…) It is clearly the police who are targeted. We want to be a cop“, he says. A total of 737 members of the security forces have been injured since the start of the riots, according to the Ministry of the Interior.