This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Azrou
Yesterday evening, Monday November 18, a police lieutenant colonel working for the Regional Security Commission of the city of Azrou was forced to use his functional weapon during a security intervention to arrest two people with criminal records, because the latter refused to comply and exposed the safety of citizens and the safety of police officers to a serious and dangerous threat linked to the use of bladed weapons.
The police opened a judicial investigation following a complaint filed by a taxi driver and his wife, accusing two drugged people of having intercepted the taxi, getting into it by force and exposing them to threats and blackmail. A security patrol intervened to arrest them, but they refused to comply and showed violent resistance using a knife, forcing the police officer to use his functional weapon and injuring one of the suspects in the lower limbs.
This forced use of a functional weapon made it possible to neutralize the danger represented by the first suspect, to arrest him and to seize the knife used during this attack, before research and investigations led to the identification of the second suspect. and his arrest shortly after committing. criminal acts.
The injured suspect was kept under medical surveillance in the hospital, while the second detainee was subjected to a judicial investigation ordered by the competent public prosecutor, in order to reveal all the circumstances and circumstances of this case, as well as to identify all criminal acts attributed to those involved.