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  • Lyon Metropolitan Area Ambush in Rillieux: a municipal police officer seriously injured, suffering a skull fracture

    On Sunday, May 3, around 23:30, police were taking two teenagers into custody when they fell victim to an ambush. Fifteen individuals appeared and threw projectiles at the municipal police vehicle. A female officer was seriously injured by shards of glass and a stone, and underwent emergency neurosurgery this Monday.

    Laurence Loison (mailadress) - Today at 13:52 | updated today at 18:47 p.m. - Reading time: 3 min

    On Sunday, May 3, around 23:30, in the Alagniers neighborhood, two municipal police crews were carrying out a stop-and-search of two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, in Boileau Park in Rillieux-la-Pape. Suspecting them of having entered the premises of the Maison pour Tous community center to smoke drugs, they decided to take them to the municipal police station so their parents could come pick them up. A BST (Specialized Field Brigade) crew came as backup.

    Fifteen hooded individuals

    The three vehicles turned onto Avenue de l’Europe when about fifteen figures appeared. Hooded and dressed in black, the individuals threw projectiles at the cars. The municipal and national police managed to disperse them using tear gas grenades and LBD shots (rubber-ball defense launchers).

    Unfortunately, a stone went through a window of the municipal police car and injured the female officer who was driving. Taken to the hospital, she was seriously injured, suffering a skull fracture, a depression of the cranial vault, and an 8 cm open wound. This mother of two, who is also a volunteer firefighter, underwent emergency neurosurgery this Monday at Wertheimer Neurological Hospital.

    “We cannot back down in the face of these people”

    The mayor of Rillieux, Alexandre Vincendet (Horizons), expressed his emotion: “The blow was meant to kill. Behind this tragedy, there is a woman, a mother, an officer committed to serving the community, whose life is now turned upside down. You cannot set ambushes for police officers to kill them, you cannot attempt to take the lives of those who protect us. This is a turf war, they want to instill fear through ultra-violence. Fundamentally, we cannot back down in the face of these people. There are about thirty Rilliards [residents of Rillieux], always the same ones, very well known to the police, many of whom are minors. Faced with very violent profiles, we must reform juvenile justice.” The mayor will summon the parents of the two teenagers arrested in Boileau Park, whose stop triggered the intervention. “We must put parental responsibility back at the center of things.”

    First ambush ten days ago

    Ten days ago, on April 23, a BST officer had already been the victim of an ambush, in roughly the same location. As he was finishing his shift at night, he was followed, and about ten individuals, also hooded, threw projectiles at his personal vehicle. The officer was shaken but fortunately not physically injured.

    “Every arrest creates tensions”

    “There are very strong tensions in Rillieux-la-Pape, urban violence almost every day. Because of a core group of individuals who resist police work. Every arrest creates tensions. The major police effort being carried out is greatly disturbing the criminals and the drug trade,” observes one officer. In March, the city had experienced a week of urban violence after a municipal police dog bit a resident.

    CRS riot police as reinforcements

    Denouncing extremely dangerous and criminal behavior, the prefect Fabienne Buccio expressed her full support for the injured municipal police officer. She announced the deployment of CRS riot police to Rillieux-la-Pape starting this Monday evening.

    An “exemplary criminal response” demanded by the National Public Security Union

    In a statement released this Monday, the president of the National Public Security Union (SNSP), Stéphane Poupeau, expressed “his strongest indignation.” “This act of extreme gravity once again illustrates the growing violence faced daily by security forces, whether national or municipal. Attacking those who protect the population constitutes an intolerable affront to the fundamental values of our Republic,” he declared.



  • On our village cemetery there’s a central pillar where all the vicars serving here since the 1600s are carved in. While hiking the other day in the woods north of here, I found a large stone monument between two oak trees that memorizes the man that owned that bit if forest in the 1800s. It’s not that hard to somehow reach that status.