Two teenagers were indicted and imprisoned after the assault of a police officer of the anti-crime brigade outside his home in Hyères. The suspects would have recognized him and returned armed with iron bars before attacking him violently.

Two teenagers were imprisoned in the Var after the assault of a policeman Thursday in front of his home in Hyères. One of two teenagers aged 16 and 17 arrested after the assault of a police officer Thursday outside his home in Hyères (Var) was indicted and imprisoned Saturday, was learned from a judicial source. He is accused of aggravated violence against a person in charge of public authority and death threats.

The second teenager was also detained on Saturday night and faces the same charges, according to the BFM TV news channel.

The plainclothes policeman of the brigade anticriminality (BAC) of Toulon was assaulted Thursday, around five o'clock, in front of his home by opposing the burglary of his vehicle. He managed to put two people to flight, who abandoned an ID card and a mobile phone.

"A few minutes later, a dozen people came back, armed with iron bars and others, they told him to have recognized him as 'cop' and assaulted him violently," the union Unity SGP Police- FO.

Wounded by the ribs, the policeman finally managed to escape his attackers who "threatened him with death and all kinds of revenge on his wife," the statement added. The officer received five days of temporary interruption of work (ITT).