A police officer in his fifties was attacked in the street in Bordeaux. The assailant was arrested two hours later and taken into custody.
The facts date back to Saturday April 30 at 4 p.m. 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, according to a police source at AFP .
The officer took out his police card. The man then “saw red”, “beat him on the ground” and “smashed a bottle on his head”, as can be seen in a video posted on social networks. Please note that the images may be shocking.
Bordeaux: A policeman beaten up, his attacker placed in police custody pic.twitter.com/VDMtoro5Fi
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The Bordeaux peacekeeper suffers from multiple bruises, the consequences of kicks and punches received, and a major wound to the scalp, following a bottle throw from the aggressor, explained to the AFP a police union source.
A witness injured by a shard of glass
The alleged assailant fled. Two hours later, he was arrested in Lormont, in the suburbs of Bordeaux, according to this same source.
He was placed in police 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.
A witness who tried to intervene during the attack was injured by a shard of glass in the calf, according to the police source.