Every year, Christmas and New Year rhyme with attacks against firefighters. This December 23 in Strasbourg, a team was targeted by mortar fire. A teenager was taken into custody and a complaint was filed.
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Situations that are repeated too often for firefighters. On the evening of December 23, while responding to a trash fire, a crew of sappers was targeted by mortar fire in Strasbourg. The attacker, aged fifteen, was arrested by the police and taken into custody.
The management of the Bas-Rhin fire and rescue service condemned the violence suffered by its men and filed a complaint, as indicated in this tweet.
Being attacked, when you come to put out a fire, and potentially save people, is shocking. However, this is what firefighters still face too often when responding.
Cédric Hatzenberger, FO trade unionist, at SIS 67 evokes a special era. “The end of the year is always a time when bad memories come flooding back. But let's go, we're at work.”
This time, there were no injuries, but the risk exists every time. So, the affirmed support of their superiors is essential for them, but these firefighters request the protection of the police, because in certain places, they are called to fires caused solely with the aim of ambush them.
“These remain epiphenomena and prevention is put in place in the neighborhoods” specifies the firefighter, but “prevention must be effective.”
Many social leaders, but also ordinary citizens and sometimes law enforcement, work in neighborhoods to ensure that incivility and incidents against firefighters stop. Will these steps and actions bear fruit one day?
