labor law: a policeman violently assaulted during a demonstration in Nantes – Le Figaro

The police commander was hit with an iron bar shots. A total of seven members of the security forces were injured in Nantes, on Tuesday, at the demonstration against the labor law.

They came to fight. Tuesday around 17:45 a group comes off the demonstration against labor law through Nantes, and attacks a policeman coming down from his vehicle. According to RTL site, individuals would have removed his helmet and threw him to the ground to hit him with an iron bar shots. The officer was taken unconscious to the University Hospital of Nantes. Currently, it would be conscious again, and his prognosis is no longer engaged.

Asked by Le Figaro , a source of the Loire-Atlantic prefecture confirmed the attack, without knowing the exact circumstances. “It’s a police commander,” she said, adding that the police officer suffers from “wounds to the face” and a possible “broken nose”.

A total of seven members of the security forces were injured Tuesday in Nantes. Besides the police commander wounded in the face, a mobile policeman was hospitalized after receiving a keypad. Plainclothes police intervened in the crowd to catch a dozen people. More than 700 protesters beat the pavement to the call of the collective “Nantes revolted” unconnected with unions, chanting slogans against the police, journalists and the Socialist Party. This new day of mobilization against the bill work in Paris and other cities was marked by strong tensions.

Monday, thirteen students, suspected of having set fire to dustbins, damaging the front of the school-De Vinci in Levallois (Hauts-de-Seine), alongside the events of April 5, were taken into custody. Two days earlier, seven people were immediately tried to Paris to “person holding on abuse of public authority” during the dispersal by force of the gathering Night Stand, on the night of April 28 to 29. A total of 24 police officers or gendarmes were injured in clashes between protesters and security forces for the single day of 28 April, including an official suffering from a fractured skull. That same day, in Rennes, a young man was seriously injured in the face by a projectile fired from a launcher balls on the sidelines of the demonstration against the labor law. He lost vision in his left eye.

On Sunday, the leader of the Left Party Mélenchon said on France 3 that opponents of the bill have “no glory to draw from the fact that a policeman was seriously injured. ” While denouncing the “absolute malice top police command” that causes “deliberate violence”, he called his troops not to “be associated with this violence.” The candidate told the 2017 presidential said to fear the worst: “At the rate we’re going, someone will die, because violence is every event a bit higher,” he feared.