Three police officers from the anti-crime brigade (BAC) came under fire on Thursday evening "fireworks from mortars" in a working-class district of Bordeaux and one of them was slightly burned in one hand, he said. we learned from the police on Friday.
Slightly burnt on the left hand
The shots, coming from a "group of about fifteen individuals", hit the police vehicle and an officer who had remained inside was lightly burned in the left hand by residues of explosives which had entered the vehicle. the interior, explained this source, confirming information from the daily Sud Ouest . This official and the two who were out of the vehicle at the time of the shooting also suffered from tinnitus.
Seven shots fired were noted on the vehicle of the police officers, who intervened during the evacuation of a stolen scooter in the district of Grand-Parc, north-west of the city.
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Five people arrested
Five people, all minors, were arrested and placed in police custody and the investigation entrusted by the prosecution to the Interregional Directorate of the Judicial Police. A police officer also used his weapon Thursday evening in the Bordeaux agglomeration during a chase, according to the same source. Three people traveling in a car, which they had stolen on the public highway in Pessac by expelling the driver, evaded an initial police check and then forced a police roadblock. It was at this point that an officer, feeling in danger, used his weapon, according to the police. There were no injuries.
The chase ended in downtown Bordeaux without further incident. Two people, aged 19 and 20, were arrested and taken into police custody.