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He said he believed "it was the end". The 34-year-old policeman, assaulted on the night of June 13 to 14, when he was not on duty and when he returned to his home in Lyon 7th with his partner, spoke on France 3 and CNews . Victim of several ankle fractures, a dislocation of the Achilles tendon and numerous bruises all over the body (ITT 45 days), the man is still hospitalized.

“When I talk about it around me, I am told that it is part of the job. But no, it's not part of the job to be insulted all the time, to be lynched, "he insisted Thursday on France 3, while three young people were indicted (including two minors) and that two of them were placed in pre-trial detention.

"They took my head for a soccer ball": The overwhelming testimony of Alexandre, police officer attacked in Lyon outside his home in #LaMatinaleWE pic.twitter.com/dbqBkAdgI9

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"I was wondering if I was going to end up quadriplegic"

The police officer said that he had received from the gang of "young people in his neighborhood", in total "about forty blows, especially in the head". "With each stroke, I felt crackles in the back of my neck," he said on CNews on Saturday. They literally took my head for a soccer ball. I was wondering if I was going to lose consciousness completely, to end up quadriplegic. "

The victim then projected on to the rest of his career: “It will take me time to recover from this. I do not yet have the extent of all the psychological consequences and their scope. But once I have managed to get over this, I will obviously resume my job. ”

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