the territorial director of the national police promised “to adapt the system in the face of threats”

It was a few hundred meters from the police station in Pointe-à-Pitre, in Guadeloupe, that a gendarme was shot and wounded on Thursday, January 20. “What was initially a simple protest demonstration, a parade, gave rise to violence firmly condemned by the regional prefect“, reports the journalist Laetitia Broulhet, special sent to Pointe-à-Pitre on Friday. The facts were also condemned “by the territorial director of the national police, who this morning, during a press conference, specified that it was a projectile of nine millimeters which had been fired at the gendarme who is out of danger today today“, explains the journalist.

The police came under forty shots on Thursday, January 20. “Nine stores were robbed overnight. The territorial director of the national police, Laurent Chavanne (…) has promised to adapt the system in the face of these threats. In short: a more dynamic strategy and arrests“, indicates Laetitia Broulhet, live for France 3.