The individual, a foreign offender in an irregular situation, was placed in a detention center with a view to his deportation, because known for numerous offenses, according to the Minister of the Interior.
Following the violent attack on three police officers in Lyon in the Guillotière district, an individual was arrested, the Minister of the Interior announced on Twitter on Sunday July 24. He is a man in an irregular situation, who was immediately placed in detention and must soon be deported. During the day, the Lyon prosecutor’s office then announced that the individual had been “exoneratedregarding violence against police officers.
Gérald Darmanin then reacted on Twitter, insisting that “related to the events or not», the individual is «known for numerous accusations: theft, violence, death threat against a person holding public authority, possession of drugs, violence in meetings“. Facts that justify, in the eyes of the Minister of the Interior, his placement in a detention center: “This individual has nothing to do in our country which is generous if we respect it“.
On Wednesday evening, three plainclothes police officers were violently attacked in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon while trying to arrest a person suspected of theft. The plainclothes crewintervened for a snatch robbery when they were very quickly attacked by the crowd“, told AFP a police source, adding that the suspect had taken the opportunity to flee. On a video of the scene broadcast on social networks, we see two men and a woman being beaten and thrown by projectiles in front of the entrance to a convenience store in the sensitive district of La Guillotière, in the city center.
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“Foreign criminals have no place in France”
According to Alliance, two and seven days of ITT were prescribed for two of them. The assaulted police officers were also to file a complaint for their injuries. Five days later, the Minister of the Interior therefore announced the arrest of a man. Asked by AFP, the Lyon prosecutor’s office however indicated that “the person placed in police custody yesterday (Saturday) as part of the investigation opened in Lyon into the chief of violence against police officers in Place Gabriel-Peri on the evening of July 20, was released today“. “It turns out that she was completely exonerated in the context of the investigations carried out. The investigation is actively continuing to identify, locate and arrest the perpetrators“, specifies the parquet floor. He could have participated in the crowd without having been one of the perpetrators of the violence.
Several members of the government but also political leaders of LR and RN had expressed their support for the injured police officers and asked the Minister of the Interior to “regain controlin the face of violence in certain neighborhoods. At the beginning of the year, a specialized field brigade was set up in the La Guillotière district to try to stem crime and trafficking there, while the acts of violence there have increased over the past two years.