Overview
- A 46-year-old woman was raped during a home burglary in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, with about €80,000 in valuables stolen, and a 22-year-old suspect has been indicted and remanded as a judicial investigation proceeds.
- In Paris’s 16th arrondissement, an octogenarian suffered a fractured nose during a nighttime burglary in which a safe with jewelry worth roughly €25,000 was taken, and three suspects were arrested as prosecutors opened an inquiry for organized theft with violence.
- After a tobacconist robbery in the Vosges, suspects in a stolen car deliberately rammed a police vehicle, injuring four officers, as two men were arrested, a third remained wanted, and the Épinal prosecutor opened an investigation.
- In Carcassonne, officers pursuing a stolen vehicle driven by minors opened fire during the arrest phase, wounding a 16-year-old passenger, and both the IGPN and the interdepartmental judicial police were seized alongside ongoing judicial inquiries.
- Police unions decried increasingly dangerous refusals to obey and urged tougher sanctions, citing official data that records roughly 25,000 such incidents each year with a significant share deemed aggravated.