Toulouse: serial violent incidents in public transport
The police services intervened several times on Thursday February 17 for incidents in the metro or public transport in Toulouse. Several people were arrested.
Two boys were arrested Thursday evening near the Arènes district in Toulouse. A complicated arrest for the police officers of the public transport surveillance unit who were attacked by a group of “friends” who tried to free the suspects.
These two boys aged 18 and 19 were identified by a victim who had just been assaulted with his brother in the subway. A cell phone had been stolen from them and the victims were beaten. The phone was not found but the two individuals were taken into custody at the premises of the Right Bank legal support group.
Further violence in the afternoon when Tisséo agents who were checking tickets in the metro at Jeanne d’Arc station encountered problems when a 16-year-old boy was checked without a ticket. With his friends, he wanted to force the passage. A prevention officer received a headbutt. Two 16-year-old boys were arrested and taken into custody.
Finally, a 22-year-old girl, who on Thursday morning had to suffer the insults and sexual arousal of a 67-year-old man on a Tisséo bus had the bad surprise of meeting the same man, still drunk, in public transport. common at the end of the day. This time she gave the alert and the man, whose unequivocal gestures she had filmed, was arrested.