A 16-year-old young man, suspected of being the author of the firework mortar fire that burned a policeman taken to task with his colleagues in Bonneuil-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) last week, was arrested and placed in police custody on Sunday, AFP learned from a police source.

He was arrested in the morning in Paris while he was "in the process of organizing his flight to a country in West Africa," said the same source.

The young man is already known to the police for having fired with fireworks and lives in Bonneuil-sur-Marne.

Last Sunday, in this town of nearly 16,000 inhabitants about fifteen kilometers south of Paris, three police officers on patrol from the Créteil anti-crime squad were taken to task by young people who targeted them with mortar fire. artifice.

In the process, an investigation, entrusted to the Departmental Security, was opened for "attempted murder of a person holding public authority, complicity in this attempt, aggravated violence, death threats and recording and dissemination of images. violent ”.

Wounded police officers

In this case, five minors aged 14 to 16 were taken into custody and then released on Tuesday, while a 16-year-old young man was indicted on Wednesday for attempted murder of a person holding authority. public in an organized band.

Investigations are continuing to identify other "active" participants out of a total of "forty young people" gathered at the time of the events.

One of the police officers, 37 years old and member of the BAC of Créteil, was burned in the second degree in the lower back by a fireworks mortar, without his life threatening being engaged.

He was given 15 days of ITT.

His two colleagues were also injured in the eardrums and were delivered 15 and 10 days of ITT, according to the Créteil prosecutor's office which specified that they "presented hearing losses".

Coming to support the police at the Créteil police station on Monday, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin denounced a "real assassination attempt".

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