The victim, a policeman from Bordeaux in his fifties, suffered from multiple bruises and a major scalp wound, said a police union source.
A man was taken into police custody after the assault on Saturday in Bordeaux of an off-duty police officer, in front of his family, we learned from several sources.
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The victim, a policeman from Bordeaux in his fifties, suffered from multiple bruises, the consequences of kicks and punches received, and a major wound to the scalp, following a bottle thrown from the part of the aggressor, explained to AFP a police union source.
According to a police source, the alleged attacker believed that the civil servant, who was walking with his wife and children in the early afternoon, had made fun of him and he got angry. The officer took out his police card. The man thensaw red“, the “beaten on the ground» and he has «broke a bottle on the head“.
The alleged attacker fled and was arrested two hours later in Lormont, in the suburbs of Bordeaux, according to the same source.
He was taken into custody for “violence with a weapon“, the glass bottle, told AFP the prosecution, who did not wish to immediately report the circumstances of the attack.
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A witness who tried to intervene during the attack was injured by a shard of glass in the calf, according to the police source.