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Dthey jail officers died this Tuesday, May 14 within the morning within the assault on their van, on the Incarville toll sales space, which was transporting a detainee between Rouen and Évreux, introduced a police supply consulted by Agence France-Presse (AFP ) and the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti.
A gendarmerie supply specified that the outcomes of this assault had been two lifeless and three critically injured, together with not less than one in an absolute emergency. A neighborhood police supply indicated {that a} third officer had died within the assault.
Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti expressed his “thoughts to the victims, their families and their colleagues”. A disaster unit has been arrange at his ministry, mentioned the Minister of Justice.
A jail convoy was attacked in Eure.
Two of our jail officers have died, three are critically injured. All my ideas are with the victims, their households and their colleagues.
I instantly go to the disaster unit of @justice_gouv.
— Eric Dupond-Moretti (@E_DupondM) May 14, 2024
“Sincere and saddened condolences to the bereaved families and to the agents of the Ministry of Justice”, reacted the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin on these criminals,” he mentioned.
The Épervier plan is triggered following a kidnapping, an escape or through the search and apprehension of a needed particular person.
Sincere and saddened condolences to the bereaved households and brokers of the Ministry of Justice. The “Epervier” plan was triggered. All means are getting used to search out these criminals. On my directions, a number of hundred cops and gendarmes are… https://t.co/KXzPJa0A2r
— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) May 14, 2024
According to a police supply at Agence France-Presse, the assault was carried out by a commando of a number of criminals who used automobiles, one in all which was discovered shortly after the occasions, “charred”, in a spot which was not was not specified by this supply.
“A shock for all”
Emmanuel Macron spoke after the van assault, deploring a “shock for everyone”. “The Nation stands alongside the families, the injured and their colleagues,” wrote the President of the Republic on his X account.
“Everything is being done to find the perpetrators of this crime so that justice can be done in the name of the French people,” he continued, indicating that the federal government shall be “intractable”.
This morning's assault, which price the lives of jail officers, is a shock to us all.
The Nation stands alongside the households, the injured and their colleagues.
Everything is being carried out to search out the perpetrators of this crime…
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) May 14, 2024
The mayor of Incarville, Patrick Maugars, spoke on BFMTV, the place he supplied his condolences to the households of the victims.
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