An aperitif in a police station degenerates, the sequel is surreal

An aperitif that turns sour. On October 28, 2022, in the heart of Geneva, Switzerland, police officers shared an aperitif “very wet” among colleagues at the Carl-Vogt police station when the situation has escalatedreports the Tribune of Geneva. Visibly drunk, an inspector from the Narcotics Squad injured another officer with his service weapon. The shots were aimed at a garbage can in the police station, but a bullet ricocheted. The policeman was injured in the foot and then was rushed to hospital to undergo an operation.

Seven shots inside the police station

According to information from the local daily, the shooter fired his service weapon seven times in the presence of five of his colleagues. “One was hit by a projectile in the foot and had to undergo surgery,” indicated the prosecutor’s office, quoted by several media including the newspaper Le Parisien. No other details on the circumstances of the incident have been disclosed by the Geneva prosecutor’s office. The shooter’s blood alcohol level tipsy was also not disclosed. The latter was heard by the general inspection of services, the police force but also by the public prosecutor. Following these interrogations, he was released but he is charged of “endangering the lives of others, bodily harm through negligence and obstructing measures to ascertain driving ability”.

As in any profession, police officers are not allowed to consume alcohol on duty. Last June, a policeman from Nanterre was sentenced to a six-month suspended prison sentence for having driven the company vehicle of his prefect companion, drunk and under the influence of illicit substances.