At least one arrest, four days after the attack. This Sunday, on Twitter, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced that “police operations took place” in Lyon, where two police officers were injured on Wednesday after being beaten and thrown by projectiles in the Guillotière district.
“One of the offenders is a foreigner, he was arrested. On my instruction, he was placed in detention and will be expelled, ”clarified the minister.
At the end of the week, the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, assured that “the means of investigation (were going to) be strongly mobilized and we absolutely want to be able to sanction these behaviors which are not acceptable”.
“All means” mobilized
“It cannot go unpunished, we must be able to react and act quickly” because “it is not tolerable to attack our police officers who are there to protect the population”, said Elisabeth Borne during the interview. a press briefing.
For his part, Gérald Darmanin had indicated, already on Twitter, that “the operations” of the police would multiply “so that force remains with the law” and that “all means are mobilized to arrest the perpetrators”. He also told them his “full support” for the victims..
On Wednesday, three plainclothes police officers, two men and a woman, were attacked by a crowd as they tried to arrest a person suspected of snatching. Two of them were injured, being prescribed two and seven days of ITT, according to the police union Alliance.