Overview
- Police intervened after a late-night brawl near the bar Le Sketch on Mail François‑Mitterrand in Rennes, where the confrontation occurred.
- The 45-year-old officer was knocked unconscious, suffered a double nasal fracture, was taken to CHU de Rennes, and received three days of ITT; a thumb sprain was also reported.
- The assailant, about 40 and heavily intoxicated, also struck another officer, told the court he remembered nothing, and did not contest the facts.
- After police custody and judicial control, he was tried in comparution immédiate and sentenced to six months under electronic monitoring plus six months suspended.
- Identified as a former Stade Rennais academy player who later played for Caen with no prior record, he apologized in court saying he was ashamed, and the officer accepted his apology.