A police officer indicted in Tours for having administered a “harmful substance” to his colleagues

He is suspected of having administered “harmful substance” to two agents and “defaced or damaged property belonging to another”. A police officer from the Tours police station (Indre-et-Loire) was indicted on Friday April 12, the city’s public prosecutor announced on Tuesday, confirming information from the regional daily. The New Republic. The magistrate specifies that the acts alleged against the police officer were committed “within the framework of the service and with regard to two other police officers”.

The police officer is being prosecuted for “administration of a harmful substance aggravated by three circumstances followed by incapacity not exceeding eight days” and “damage or deterioration of property belonging to others”, she explains. The police officer was placed under judicial supervision, notably “the ban on going to the victims’ homes, appearing at the Tours police station and carrying and holding a weapon”. He will also have to undergo medical treatment or care.