Firing Kalashnikov against police in Marseille: “We … – Liberation

Firing Kalashnikov against police in Marseille: "We … – Liberation

A police operation was underway late Monday morning in a city of northern Marseille where residents reported “Kalashnikov shots in the air” that would have caused no casualties. Police officers were shot Monday on arrival in a city of northern Marseille where they were called by local residents reporting of “Kalashnikov shots in the air” , said the director of public safety Pierre-Marie Bourniquel. “We were gusting to our arrival on site” , has he told AFP, who was in one of three cars targeted and “clearly as idenfiées being police cars “, adding that nobody was hurt.

According to an AFP photographer, men IFNU came around noon on an armored vehicle in the city of Castellane, the Mecca of drug trafficking, where residents had reported earlier in the morning “firing Kalashnikovs in the air” that would actually “victimless” , told AFP a source close to the investigation.

These are residents who alerted the police, reports of the shooting in the air by “five to ten individuals” , in this city where a 25 year old man was killed by a bullet in the head on Jan. 15 in a settling of accounts. Children in the nursery of the city were moved to a nearby school, according to the same source close to the investigation. Tensions were held between parents who wanted their children recover and law enforcement, blocking access, according to the AFP photographer.

This will be the day of the visit to Marseille Prime Minister Manuel Valls, accompanied by Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and that of Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, a business dominated by the themes of security and education.

AFP