A police officer was still in Saint-Etienne hospital this morning, after being transported to the emergency room and operated on the night of Thursday to Friday.

This 51-year-old brigadier-chief received a projectile in the head during an intervention for nighttime noise, in Rive-de-Gier (Loire), we learned from police and judicial sources.

If his vital prognosis is not engaged, the aggression was particularly violent.

During the intervention in a street of this town in the valley of the Gier shortly after midnight, the latter received a glass bottle at the level of the cheekbone.

He then collapsed to the ground and lost consciousness.

"A condition deemed serious by the medical profession"

"He underwent an intervention overnight at the neurological service of the Saint-Etienne University Hospital," said a representative of the SGP Police-FO Unit union.

The Alliance Police Nationale union evokes in a press release "a state deemed serious by the medical profession", asking "for the rapid establishment of minimum and irreducible sentences for the perpetrators of such acts".

On Twitter, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, affirmed that his services were "fully mobilized to find the author of the facts".

He also supported the policeman and wished him a speedy recovery during a press speech.

A police officer was seriously injured during an intervention in Rive de Giers in the Loire.


I give him my full support and his colleagues.


Our services are fully mobilized to find the perpetrator.

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- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) May 14, 2021

"Night noise" in full Eid

The victim was part of a crew of three police officers from the Saint-Chamond police station who ensured the application of the curfew, who went to meet a group of about fifteen people reported for "night noise" in the Grand Pont district, according to Vincent Bony, the PCF mayor of Rive-de-Gier, adding "strongly condemn this unacceptable aggression".

"The individuals initially refused to leave, invoking Eid (editor's note: the Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan), then launched projectiles in the direction of the police," said the deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Saint-Etienne, André Merle.

No one had been arrested at midday as part of the investigation opened against the perpetrators of this violence against people holding public authority.

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