Prime Minister Jean Castex announced Monday evening a tougher punishment for attackers of police or gendarmes.

It was a measure requested by the police unions, received Monday in Matignon after the murder of a brigadier last week in Avignon.

Jean Castex announced Monday evening a hardening of the penalties incurred by attackers of police or gendarmes after a meeting with representatives of the police unions in Matignon organized after the murder of a brigadier last week in Avignon.

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In a press release, the Prime Minister specified that the security sentence for those sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime committed against a police officer or a gendarme would be increased to thirty years, as well as the strict limitation of the possibilities of reduction of sentences for the aggressors. members of the police.

More information to follow.