twenty individuals attack police officers during a major anti-narcotics operation
Coming to arrest a “big shot” in drug trafficking, the police officers suffered an “incredible” deluge of violence, we are told.
Several police officers from the northern districts of Marseille were attacked by around twenty individuals during an operation targeting a “big hatof drug trafficking, this Friday, September 16 at the end of the afternoon, learned Le Figaro from a police source.
The facts took place this Friday around 6 p.m., in the small city “once quietof Belle-de-Mai, and more precisely near the residence of Moulin-du-Mai, in the 3rd arrondissement of the city of Marseille. The sector is home to a major drug trade, which police officers from the Specialized Field Brigade (BST) wanted to shake up by arresting a “big hat», «wanted for extremely serious offenses“, at the end of the afternoon.
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While the agents proceeded, without concern, to his arrest, twenty to twenty-five individuals disembarked, surrounded them thenthrow on the policemen to freethe arrested man. “It was incredibly violent“, we are told. Throws of concrete blocks, sometimes less than two meters away, are observed. Reinforcements are deployed a few minutes later to extract the targeted law enforcement and arrest the perpetrators of the attack.
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Five people, including the wanted individual, were apprehended. Despite the violence of the scene, the police escaped serious injuries. One of them, however, suffered two broken fingers, while another “has bruises all over his body“. An agent also received a smash in the face, and could have a broken nose.
“It is a very small city, which weighs absolutely nothing compared to the other cities of the northern districtsfrom Marseille, explains our source. “She was completely quiet fifteen years ago… Today, she has become unmanageable“.