Val-de-Marne: Two police officers attacked on New Year’s Eve

On Sunday evening, at around 10.30 pm, two police officers were violently attacked by a group of individuals in Champigny-sur-Marne (94). After responding to a call at a flat where a party had got out of hand, the officers were pelted with projectiles before being attacked. Two police officers were seriously injured. They have been prescribed 10 and 7 days’ complete sick leave respectively. Two individuals were arrested and taken into police custody. The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and the Minister of the Interior, Gérard Collomb, reacted on Twitter:

Those responsible for the cowardly and criminal attack on police officers carrying out their duties on the night of 31 December will be found and punished. The law will prevail. Honour to the police and our full support goes to all the officers who were so despicably attacked.

— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) 1 January 2018

#Champigny : I have just spoken with the police officers who were attacked. Every effort is being made to ensure that the cowardly perpetrators of these unspeakable acts are apprehended and brought to justice. To attack our security forces is to attack our Republic.

— Gérard Collomb (@gerardcollomb) 1 January 2018