Five minors placed in police custody after the assault Thursday evening in Bordeaux of three police officers, targeted by fireworks, were released without prosecution. If these minors "were present near the place of the attack at the time of it, it appears that they did not participate in it and were therefore not part of the attackers", explained the Bordeaux prosecutor's office.
The teenagers were arrested on the spot shortly after this assault on Thursday in the district of Grand-Parc, north-west of Bordeaux. That evening, three police officers from the Bordeaux Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) had come under "firework mortar fire", according to the police, while they waited for the evacuation of stolen scooters in this popular district. .
Wounded police officers
The shots, coming from a "group of about fifteen individuals", had hit the police vehicle and an officer who had remained inside had been lightly burned in the left hand by residues of explosives entered in. the interior, according to the same source. This official and the two who were out of the vehicle at the time of the shooting also suffered from tinnitus. Seven gunshots were noted on the car.
The investigations entrusted by the prosecution to the Interregional Directorate of the Judicial Police, "are continuing very actively to identify" the perpetrators of the aggression and "in particular the user of the artisanal fireworks mortar", the same source stressed.
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