A business manager was indicted this Sunday, October 27, for attempted murder of a person holding public authority two days earlier in the Breton city.
He is now behind bars. A man was indicted for attempted murder of a person holding public authority after stabbing police officers in Lorient (Morbihan), the city's prosecutor's office announced this Sunday, October 27. Two days earlier, a bailiff had requested police reinforcements to confront a business manager who refused to give him access to the luxury cars he rented to individuals, reported Yann Richard, deputy public prosecutor in Lorient. .
The alleged attacker, aged 46, then struck with a katana-type saber and injured three police officers who were hospitalized. One of them received two saber blows to the neck and hands, which earned him ten days of total incapacity for work (ITT), according to the prosecution. The video of the events was broadcast on social networks by the police union Un1té.
“Expelled from his home at the end of August”, the trader had been established since “in the premises of his former company”, Luxury car rentals, which had been liquidated three years previously, detailed the magistrate. The bailiff was to, among other vehicles, seize a green Lamborghini, by virtue of a court decision. But the «virulence» of the man had pushed the bailiff to call the police who “vainly attempted to [le] reason”, he said.
At the end of his police custody on Sunday, the forty-year-old was placed in pre-trial detention and indicted. He acted in “legal recidivism” because he was already convicted of cases of violence, notably when he managed a nightclub, also in Lorient, said the deputy public prosecutor.
