An injured gendarme after being « voluntarily struck », two suspects in police custody – Liberation

A deliberate collision. The gendarmerie of Meurthe-et-Moselle said this 24-year-old gendarme was injured after being injured after being « Voluntarily hit » By a biker Friday evening During an urban rodeonear Nancy. Suffering from « Fairly important fractures » In the leg, the victim was operated overnight at Nancy hospital, the permanence officer told AFP.

A 20-year-old suspect went to himself at the end of the morning at the Nancy Central police station, where he was placed in police custody. He is suspected of « attempted murder on a soldier of the national gendarmerie ». He was the subject, last year, after an educational measure, of a « Judicial warning » For involuntary injuries by driver of a motor vehicle.

In addition, a 16 -year -old boy who had recovered the motorcycle just after the driver’s flight was arrested and also placed in police custody.

The incident occurred when the young gendarme motioned for the biker to stop on Friday May 16 around 9:30 p.m. in Neuves-Maisons, a town of 6,500 inhabitants located south of Nancy. In response, « The biker voluntarily struck the gendarme » Before leaving with his vehicle, said his colleague. The investigation was entrusted to the Nancy’s research brigade.

In Haute-Savoie, a young driver of 19, suspected of having overthrown A firefighter who wanted to interrupt an urban rodeowas indicted for attempted murder earlier this week.

In response, the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, to call to rage against urban rodeos, a growing phenomenon. He asked on x « The greatest firmness against the scourge of urban rodeos, which rots the life of many French people ». Before adding that the public prosecutors « Will now have to systematically seize the vehicles involved in rodeos and, as the law allows, selling them or having them destroyed even before judgment. »

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced that he had spoken with the injured gendarme. « I want to repeat my support to all those who are targeted because they carry the uniform and my determination to stop this savagery which is gaining ground in our society »commented the minister.

Updated at 4:20 p.m. with information on a 20-year suspect, who went by himself; at 8:35 p.m. with a second suspect, and message from the Minister of the Interior