
The shooter is currently holed up near the commercial area of the Plan de Campagne.
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The firefighter responded to a fire in the Plan de Campagne commercial area.
A firefighter was shot and injured on Sunday while responding to a fire in Pennes-Mirabeau (Bouches-du-Rhône), Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced on X. The victim and his team were mobilized in the Plan de Campagne commercial zone, between Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, when they were attacked by an armed assailant, specifies the department's delegated police headquarters.
The shooter is holed up near the fire. The police services are “mobilized” to arrest him, specifies Laurent Nuñez, who expresses his “indignation at this gratuitous violent attack against our firefighters who are committed to protecting”. A security perimeter has been defined. The prefect is on site, as well as the delegated police chief. “The injured firefighter was taken care of and all our thoughts are with him so that he can recover,” adds the Minister of the Interior.
Eric Brocardi, spokesperson for the French firefighters, provided his “total support” to the injured firefighter, “to his loved ones and to the mobilized teams”. “When those who provide assistance become targets, it is our republican pact that is compromised,” he asserts in a post on X. “Rescuing must never endanger people. All security forces are engaged to find the attacker.”
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Arrest of the assailant by the police.
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