A public highway surveillance officer (ASVP) in Mée-sur-Seine will remember all her life the attack she suffered this Tuesday, November 19 at midday at her workplace. Around 12:30 p.m., after her outdoor security mission after leaving a local school, she returned to the municipal police station, located on avenue Maurice-Dauvergne, for her lunch break. As she walks towards the main door, the officer apparently does not notice a man following suit and entering the building right behind her. Once inside the municipal police station, he belts the woman in uniform and places the blade of a knife to her throat.
Luckily, it's also lunch break time for ASVP colleagues. About fifteen seconds after the start of this attack, as surprising as it was unexplained, municipal police officers returned from patrol and in turn entered the premises. They heard the ASVP shouting, discovered the scene and did not hesitate for a moment to throw themselves at the individual. They disarm him and put him on the ground. The threatening man is arrested.
An investigation into attempted homicide of a person holding public authority has been opened. The attacker was placed in police custody before it was lifted. “A psychiatric expertise concluded that the discernment of this man who was placed in a psychiatric hospital was abolished,” confirms Jean-Michel Bourlès, the public prosecutor at the Melun judicial court, contacted this Thursday evening.
The victim of the attack is in shock but is not physically injured. We still do not know the number of days of total incapacity for work (ITT) that the victim will suffer. In any case, she is “very shocked”, adds the magistrate.
“This is a serious incident that has just occurred. The colleagues who arrested the individual did not know him, nor did our agent,” comments Serge Durand, first deputy mayor of Mée-sur-Seine responsible for security. “The elected officials are wholeheartedly with the victim and with all the municipal police officers in our town. When you have a knife to your throat, the shock is enormous…”
