Police officers injured by mortar fire in front of a high school in Pau: four minors indicted, judicial investigation opened

The Pau prosecutor, Rodolphe Jarry, announced this Saturday the opening of a judicial investigation against four minors after the demonstrations of November 5. The prosecution wants the detention of one of them, aged 16, and who is accused of having lit the pyrotechnic device whose projectiles injured four police officers.

Since the start of the high school movement, tensions have arisen between certain young people and the police, including certain actions which led to violent acts. Early in the morning of Thursday, November 5, four police officers were injured by fireworks mortar fire in front of the Saint-John-Perse high school in Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

This Saturday, November 7, the Pau prosecutor, Rodolphe Jarry, announces the opening of a judicial investigation against four minors, who "were in police custody", this Friday, November 6. Another judicial investigation was opened against Each of the sentences amounts to ten years of imprisonment, specifies the public prosecutor of Pau.

A minor placed in pre-trial detention

The Pau public prosecutor's office is requesting provisional detention for one of the four minors: the individual, aged 16, is the one "accused of having lit the pyrotechnic device whose projectiles injured the police officers", specifies this same source. For the three other minors who participated in the facts, "they will be subject to requisitions for the purposes of placing them under judicial supervision", adds the prosecution.

Justice wishes to specify that this judicial information will make it possible to know "the circumstances in which the violence against the police officers occurred, but also to identify and arrest any person who participated in the preparation and commission of this offense."

Following this violent act, four police officers were injured, "two of whom were given an incapacity for work of two days and three days by the medical examiner", concludes the public prosecutor of Pau.