No less than 84 police officers have been mobilized for 12 days in the Loire, including those of the search and intervention brigade of the judicial police and two branches of the Raid.

The investigation around the attack on a police officer, seriously injured in the head by a projectile on the night of May 13 to 14 during an intervention in Rive-de-Gier (Loire), has just accelerated this Wednesday morning.

Eight men were arrested in Rive-de-Gier and Saint-Chamond (Loire) as well as in Givors (Rhône), we learned from police and judicial sources.

Almost all of the targets were arrested and placed in police custody in Saint-Chamond and Saint-Etienne, a police source said on Wednesday.

Shortly after midnight, on the night of May 13 to 14 in the heart of a working-class district of Rive-de-Gier, a 51-year-old police sergeant from the Saint-Chamond police station intervened with three police officers for nighttime noise.

This father of two had received a projectile of an unknown nature to the head.

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This morning, 8 individuals arrested in the case of willful violence in a meeting on a #Police official in the town of #rivedegier on May 13.

The investigation is continuing.

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- Police Nationale 42 (@ PoliceNat42) May 26, 2021

The victim should not return to work for several months

He had lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground, in a street of this town in the Saint-Etienne agglomeration.

Taken to the Saint-Etienne University Hospital for surgery, he was placed in an artificial coma for a few hours.

Released from the hospital on May 21, the official currently benefits from a total work interruption (ITT) of 30 days but he should not return to work for several months, according to another police source.

The public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, David Charmatz, for his part announced on Tuesday the referral to an examining magistrate as part of the opening of a "judicial investigation for willful injuries on a person depositary of the public authority, with weapon and in assembly, resulting in an ITT of more than eight days ”.

These facts are punishable by 10 years imprisonment.

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