A police officer seriously injured with a hatchet in Essonne, five people arrested

The police intervened in an apartment in Savigny-sur-Orge, where they suspected drug trafficking.

During an intervention in an apartment in Savigny-sur-Orge (Essonne), Thursday November 14, a police officer was attacked with a hatchet and two others were attacked by a dog, reports France Bleu Paris. The five people present in the apartment, where drugs were found, were arrested.

Three police officers were attacked while they intervened in an apartment in Savigny-sur-Orge, where they suspected drug trafficking, the Evry prosecutor's office told France Bleu. Two of them were attacked by a dog when they arrived in the apartment, while a third police officer was attacked with a hatchet by one of the five people present in the apartment at the time of the operation . Injured in the shoulder and knee, he was hospitalized in serious condition but his vital prognosis was not in jeopardy.

The perpetrator of the attacks was arrested and his police custody is extended, specifies the Evry prosecutor's office. An investigation has been opened for attempted murder of a person in authority. A second investigation is opened, after the discovery of crack and cannabis in this apartment. She is entrusted to the Juvisy-sur-Orge police station. In this context, the four other people present in the apartment at the time of the events were arrested and placed in police custody.

They are now summoned to the Evry judicial court for drug use, as part of a criminal order procedure for three of them; in appearance on prior admission of guilt for the last one.