A video of three police officers being surrounded and assaulted by a gang during an arrest in Lyon’s Guillotier district last Wednesday has gone viral on social media. The sequence, which shows the bankruptcy of the government, has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Twitter. A witness to the chronicling of routine violence directed at uniforms, he recalls that a police officer is attacked every hour in France.
For the first time, the Ministry of Internal Security Statistical Service (SSMSI) confirms this trend and even goes beyond it. Place Beauvau highlights this “Attacks against security forces are fifty to sixty times more frequent than for the general population.” The police and gendarmes on their own…
Source: Le Figaro
