The vital prognosis of the policeman injured in the head by a projectile at the end of the week is no longer engaged.
"He regained consciousness coming out of the state of sedation in which he was and was able to speak to his wife last night," said the deputy public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne on Saturday.
The vital prognosis of the police officer injured in the night from Thursday to Friday to the head by a projectile in Rive-de-Gier, in the Loire, is no longer engaged, we learned on Saturday from the Saint-Etienne prosecutor's office. .
The 51-year-old police brigadier-chief of Saint-Chamond came out of the artificial coma in which he was on Friday evening, in intensive care at the Saint-Etienne CHU.
"His condition remains worrying, but is improving"
"His vital prognosis is no longer engaged, he regained consciousness coming out of the state of sedation in which he was and was able to speak last night to his wife who had come to visit him", declared the deputy prosecutor. of the Republic of Saint-Etienne, André Merle. For its part, the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) of the Loire said Saturday morning in a brief statement that "the chief brigadier injured during an intervention is still in intensive care, but out of coma. His condition remains. worrying, but improving ".
During an intervention for nighttime noise from Thursday to Friday, shortly after midnight, the police officer, father of two children, had received a projectile in the head, some sources mentioning a bottle.
He had lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground, in a street of this town in the agglomeration of Saint-Etienne.
Gérald Darmanin brings "all his support"
This new attack on a police officer, after the murders of two agents in recent weeks in Avignon and Rambouillet, sparked numerous reactions of support from police unions and political leaders on Friday.
The Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin had given "all his support" to the injured and to his colleagues.
"Our services are fully mobilized to find the author of the facts," he assured on Twitter.
No arrest was made on Saturday morning, as part of the investigation opened for willful injuries on people holding public authority, facts punishable by 10 years of imprisonment, said the prosecution and the DDSP.