Several police unions react after the accident having seriously injured one of their colleagues on Saturday evening in Amilly, in Loiret near Montargis. An investigation for attempted homicide of a person holding public authority has been opened, police said. A 25-year-old trainee peacekeeper was knocked down and thrown 20 meters, according to the UNSA union, by a scooter during a traffic check rue des Roses around 11:15 p.m.
In a press release, the public prosecutor of Montargis, Loïc Abrial, explains that the driver who was not wearing a helmet “refused to submit to checks and continued on his way“, then, according to the first elements, “he would have carried out a maneuver with his scooter causing him to return in the direction of the police” and hit the policewoman. According to the police, the driver of the two-wheeled vehicle voluntarily accelerated towards the policewoman and rushed at her when she asked him to stop. She briefly lost consciousness before being taken care of by the firefighters and transferred to Montargis hospital.
The UNSA Police Union”strongly condemns this act” this Sunday and denounces a driver who took the police “for a bowling pin“. The union, which recalls in passing the lack of staff at the Montargis police station, “the urgency of a substantial and sustainable workforce contribution to Montargis”.
For his part, Fabien Avaron of the Alliance Police du Loiret union “finds it unfortunate that people go after representatives of the state“.”There is emotion, rage, anger in our ranks“testifies Fabien Avaron. This trainee had just joined the Montargis police station, she suffered from several fractures in the face and legs and was operated on this Sunday morning.