- On January 11, a plainclothes policeman was stabbed by a teenager in Marseille while he was out of service.
- First presented as a simple victim, he was charged with premeditated violence.
A police officer seriously injured with a stabbing weapon by a teenager in January in Marseille was charged with premeditated violence, after having been initially presented as having simply intervened in a dispute between young people.
"The police officer was indicted for violence without temporary interruption of work with premeditation," said a source familiar with the matter. The policeman's assailant, a 17-year-old boy, had himself taken prisoner the day after the incident. He had been charged with assault with a weapon, but left free under judicial supervision. The policeman was also left free.
Initially presented as a simple victim
The 25-year-old policeman had initially been presented as a simple victim, after having intervened on January 11 in the evening in an emerging brawl between young people, in front of a bakery in the Chartreux district, in the heart of the city. It was during this intervention, when he was in civilian clothes and he had not presented himself as a police officer, that he had been stabbed in the abdomen by one of the young people.
The prosecution did not specify the exact role of the police in this case. But according to the regional daily La Provence , the drunk police officer participated in the outbreak of this brawl and he kicked one of the young people, who then retaliated with a knife.
This officer was normally assigned to the security of the courthouse. Quickly, his role had seemed vague to the investigators, and the judicial information opened to determine the facts precisely targeted both the adolescent who stabbed him and his victim.
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