“We are often taken to task, verbally, sometimes pushed around, but at this level of violence, it is exceptional. » The emotion is palpable within the municipal police of Pau, while two officers were attacked during the night from Thursday to Friday, in the city center. One of the police officers has a broken collarbone and 30 days of total incapacity for work (ITT).
It was around 1:20 a.m. when two officers fined a motorist parked in a space reserved for people with reduced mobility, rue Louis Barthou in Pau. There is first a couple, then friends of theirs, around the police officers. The tone rises. A 34-year-old man, visibly drunk, allegedly punched one of the police officers several times. Before fleeing.
He drags him down
The police catch up with the fugitive towards the Palais des Pyrénées. The man allegedly tried to resist his arrest, causing one of the two officers to fall to the ground. The latter suffers from a broken collarbone. A first 30-day ITT was notified to him in the hospital emergency room. He must go to the Dax medical-judicial unit for an official evaluation.
-The two police officers have already filed a complaint. Contacted, the town hall of Pau specifies that it will do the same this Friday afternoon. The suspect was still in custody at the national police station this Friday. He would have no criminal record.
