A 26 -year -old first suspect was indicted with the same chief and placed in pre -trial detention. In an irregular situation, without a criminal record, he “did not dispute the facts” and “apologized”, said the lawyer for the victims.
Le Monde with AFP
A second suspect, suspected of having participated in the assault of three plainclothes police officers on July 20 in the Guillotière district of Lyon, was indicted on Monday 1 August, August, announced the Lyon prosecution.
This suspect, whose age has not been specified, was indicted for “aggravated voluntary violence on police officers”, according to the prosecution. “He asked a deadline to prepare for his defense as part of the debate relating to his pre -trial detention required by the prosecution and the investigating judge,” which will take place on Thursday, said the prosecution. “In the meantime, he was the subject of a provisional incarceration,” it was added from the same source.
Tuesday, a 26 -year -old first suspect had been indicted, of the same chief, and placed in pre -trial detention. In an irregular situation, without a criminal record, he “did not dispute the facts” and “apologized,” said Laurent Bohé, lawyer for the victims.
Gérald Darmanin asks for more municipal police officers Lyon
Two police officers were injured on the evening of July 20 while trying with a colleague to arrest a person suspected of theft, in the middle of a crowd who violently took them to task. On a video broadcast on social networks, we can see three plain clothes, two men and a woman, wipe strokes and projectile jets in front of the entrance to a supermarket in the sensitive district of the Guillotière.
A first suspect, also foreign, was first arrested and then put out of the case. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had reacted on Twitter After his arrest announcing his expulsion. Once out of the cause, Mr. Darmanin had written, in a second tweet: “In connection with events or not, known for many computers (…) This individual has nothing to do in our country.”
Saturday, Mr. Darmanin, during a visit to Lyon where he notably met, at the prefecture, residents of the Guillotière and the three assaulted police officers, had insisted on the need to strengthen the procedures aimed at expelling the “Foreigners Delinquents”.
In a letter addressed to the mayor of Lyon on Monday, the Minister of the Interior, who will return to Lyon on September 5, reiterated his criticisms to Mayor Grégory Doucet (Europe Ecologie-les Verts) on security issues. He notably called for an increase in the workforce of the municipal police, “which require being considerably strengthened”, and an enlargement of the sectors covered by video protection.