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Vaucluse (84): Bank branch rammed by a lorry
A resident of Pernes-les-Fontaines in the Vaucluse filmed, at around three o’clock in the morning on the night of Thursday 30 March, an attack by criminals on a…
CAPTIEUX (33)
According to our information, the fire currently affecting the military camp in the commune of Captieux is believed to have been caused by an accident. At least 250 hectares of pine forest are reported to have already been burnt. The…
Prison: a grim record of overcrowding
It is the governor of the Seine-Saint-Denis remand centre in Villepinte, in the Île-de-France region, who has sounded the alarm by expressing her concerns in a letter addressed to the presidents of the high courts…
Innovation: a compact, inflatable drone for special forces
It is a French invention developed by two students at the Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace. It is a drone with a cross-shaped, inflatable structure that is resistant to…
Nice (06): a gendarme attacked as he left the courthouse
It was outside the courthouse in Nice that a gendarme was accosted by a disgruntled family on Tuesday 28 March. A member of that family had come…
KIDNAPPING ALERT
Vicente, aged five and a half, about 1 metre tall, with short chestnut-coloured hair and brown eyes; he wears glasses and is dressed in a pyjama top with the ‘CARS’ logo and blue boxer shorts…
Perpignan (66): municipal police open fire
During the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, officers from the Perpignan municipal police gave chase to a vehicle travelling at high speed and in the wrong direction on the…
Belgium: A man attacks two paramedics and barricades himself in with several weapons
On Sunday afternoon, two paramedics from the Haignaut Province Fire and Emergency Medical Services were attacked whilst on call by a 44-year-old man in Frameries. The man…
Fire: a new type of automatic water-based fire-extinguishing system
FM Global, a company specialising in the prevention, management and insurance of industrial risks, has issued a press release in which it states that it has developed a new type of automatic fire-extinguishing system…
Death: CRS officer struck down by a reckless driver
It was in Massy, in the Essonne department, that a CRS officer was out for a jog on Monday evening at around 7 pm. The driver fled the scene after hitting and dragging the officer for several…
Paris (75): Clashes outside the police station in the 19th arrondissement
Clashes broke out in Paris’s 19th arrondissement from 10.30 pm on Monday 27 March; the death of a man shot dead by the police on Sunday evening is believed to be linked to…
Self-protection: An effective system for firefighters’ safety
Self-protection is the system that helped minimise the burns sustained by the five firefighters trapped in their vehicles on Friday evening in Corsica. What is self-protection? The…
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