After the shooting of the A4, municipal police officers in shock
H. Jouanneau witness, "the criminals wanted to kill." Unions react and call the authorities to consider the municipal police as a "full-fledged police."
The world of municipal police is in mourning after the announcement of the death of one of their own, municipal police in Villiers-sur-Marne, under fire of a gang of criminals May 20, at the exit Highway A4. The first elements of the investigation seem to confirm the story that a witness, who arrived shortly after the tragedy, gave to "The Gazette" (see below).
event dates back to the top morning, around 9am near Creteil: hooded criminals traveling in a van on the A4 opened fire with heavy weapons at police officers who wanted to conduct a national police checkpoint on the vehicle without license plates. A gunfight broke out, injuring a policeman, and then undertakes a chase that leads the van up to Villiers-sur-Marne, where they are targeting two municipal police officers in their car, before fleeing .
The result was very heavy: hit by bullets in the head and chest, the municipal police in Villiers-sur-Marne dies his wounds around 12:30 pm after being rushed to the Pitie-Salpetriere in Paris while his colleague, located at his side during the drama, was hit in the shoulder by shrapnel bullet. According to several testimonies, it would have returned fire and wounded one of the criminals. Several civilians were also wounded in the shooting, including a woman, 59, still in serious condition.
slopes investigation
few hours after the tragedy, the interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, went there to "share the emotion municipal police officers. "Alongside the national police and gendarmes," these are 18,000 municipal police officers who every day take part in combat, the challenge for the security of our citizens, "said the minister.
latter also referred to the first tracks of the investigation. They "suggest that they were persons connected to a network of organized crime and that, without doubt, in light of explosives recovered in the vehicle, they were preparing to attack either one armored car or a bank. "" It's almost the Far West. They shot them in the Kalashnikov, "said the mayor for his part in Villiers-sur-Marne, Jacques-Alain Benisti.
" A full-fledged police "
the early hours, many municipalities have joined in mourning, some services displaying a veil of black crepe on their dress uniforms, others putting the tricolor flag at half mast. The tragedy has also sparked many reactions among the unions. "Criminals are no longer the distinction between national police and police City, "they observe unanimously.
" It is essential to recognize the municipal police as a full-fledged police, confronted the same problems and the same dangers that our colleagues in the National, "says one to the FA-FPT. And to mention the need to create a widow's pension for widows of officers killed on duty. Training armament, protection officers, the UNAPM (GSC) for his part called on the authorities "to give municipal police officers the means to accomplish their mission safely." Others like SNPM (CFTC) recall their claims of a fourth category of weapon (handgun) "compulsory for all." Finally, the CGT is to share that "this drama shows especially the failure of security policy. "" The guy walked in pulling the car to finish them as "
Gazette published the testimony of a municipal police officer in a neighboring town, who visited the scene shortly after the shooting. Present at the first statements of the officer wounded, he describes what happened and his impressions:
"The two municipal police officers in Villiers-sur-Marne were on patrol in their vehicle in the flow of traffic. When the criminals saw the police vehicle, they have doubled and then tightened. A man got out, armed with a submachine gun and began firing in their direction. The colleague was heard by the judicial police has said that "the type was advanced by pulling the car for as complete." There were at least 40 bullet holes on the car of our colleagues, visible on the windshield height of men and sides. The rear seat is also screened. This is not a shadow of a doubt the criminals wanted to kill, without giving them no chance of survival. They shot to kill, neither more nor less. Both officers were hit. The colleague, soil, could seize the weapon from his colleague and fired back, which has undoubtedly saved lives. He would have hit one of the criminals. So, they then shot down another plane in the line of cars to steal his car. We are all shocked: Aurélie our colleague, died, was 27 years and was the mother of a girl of 14 months. We think of her family including her husband, a colleague of Seine-et-Marne. "
