a hospitalized prisoner seizes the weapon of a gendarme and wounds him in the knee
An inmate from Longuenesse prison (Pas-de-Calais), hospitalized in Saint-Omer, a “assaulted” Thursday, November 17, the soldiers in charge of his guard and seized the service weapon of one of them, blessing him with a bullet in the knee, before being subdued, said the prosecution.
Around 6:45 p.m., this prisoner, who is in a “safe room” of the regional hospital center of Saint-Omer, for a suicide attempt, “attacked three soldiers from the gendarmerie’s surveillance and intervention platoon in charge of his static guard”explains in a press release the public prosecutor of Saint-Omer, Mehdi Benbouzid. “During the altercation on the ground, the detainee managed to grab the service weapon of one of the gendarmes and fire. A projectile lodged in the soldier’s knee., he continues. Late in the evening, the victim revealed himself “in the operating room” Corn ” His days are not in danger “.
The prosecution has opened a flagrant investigation for “violence with weapons against a person holding public authority”assigned to the research section of Lille-Villeneuve d’Ascq. “Immediately neutralized, the detainee must be transferred to the UHSA (specially equipped hospital unit) from Lille. He will be heard by the investigators at the end of his hospitalization., says Mehdi Benbouzid. A psychological unit has been set up for soldiers and hospital staff.