Overview
- A group of about fifteen masked attackers struck police vehicles in Rillieux-la-Pape Sunday night, and a large stone broke through a windshield and hit the driver, leaving the municipal officer with a skull fracture but not in life-threatening condition.
- The ambush hit as municipal officers and a national police crew were taking two adolescents to their parents after a late-night control near the local Maison pour Tous community building.
- Officers used LBD launchers, which fire rubber projectiles, and tear gas to push back the attackers during the assault, according to local reporting.
- Following Monday’s confirmation by the prefecture, the state condemned the attack and sent CRS units, France’s national riot police, to reinforce patrols in the neighborhood, and an investigation is underway with no arrests reported so far.
- Local leaders and police unions called the assault part of recurring violence against security forces in some suburbs and urged stronger visible policing and tough court responses, citing a similar case reported a week earlier in Les Mureaux.