Angry French police stage a second wildcat protest against attacks on officers
Paris — French police officers demonstrated Tuesday night in and around Paris and in the southern city of Marseille in the second wildcat protest in as many days over mounting attacks on officers. About 400 off-duty officers demonstrated outside a police station in the suburb of Evry near the spot where a firebomb attack on a squad car earlier this month left an officer fighting for his life. The protesters, in plain clothes with orange police armbands, held aloft banners reading "Solidarity with our colleagues" and booed visiting national police chief Jean-Marc Falcone. Police are up in arms over attacks on patrols in tough neighbourhoods and during protests against labour reforms. In May, a squad car was set alight in Paris with three officers inside. They escaped without serious injury. On Monday night, several hundred police in plain clothes took their protest to the ritzy Champs-Elysees in Paris, circling the Arc de Triomphe in police vehicles, sirens blaring. "We’re at the end...
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