Two municipal police officers suspended after a fight during their rest
On the night of Thursday to last Friday, around 5:30 a.m., two municipal policewho were not on duty at the time, were arrested near Place des Terreaux, at Lyonsafter a fight whose exact circumstances are not yet established, reports Mag of Lyon. These two members of the mobile operational group (GOM), 29 and 33 years old, were then placed in police custody. A investigation court is in progress.
At the same time, the city of Lyon has decided to open an administrative investigation. “Pending the results of these investigations, the two agents have been suspended as a precaution,” the town hall told AFP. 20 minutes. She points out that this is the usual procedure in this type of situation.
“They are victims”
For the Force Ouvrière union of the municipal police, these two police officers were taken to task by “a group which had recognized them” and acted only in the state “of self-defense”. According to information from Progress, it is a grocer who alerted the national police after the degradation of his window by two individuals, apparently in a state of intoxication. He would have specified that these men had committed violence against three people.
The two men will be tried in June for aggravated violence. They were placed under judicial supervision until the trial.