The Fair of Tours again enamelled with violent clashes. At least four police officers were injured after a brawl broke out in front of the entrance to the gastronomic village on Monday May 5, 2025 around 11 p.m.
According to the first elements to which The New Republic had access, a municipal police crew would have been dispatched to avenue Camille-Chautemps, which leads to the Cher Valley, after filtering security agents in particular access to the village were taken to task by a group of around thirty fairgrounds, targeted by blows and barrier jets.
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In this tense context, the circumstances of which we ignore the time of publishing these lines, a municipal police officer would have been isolated in the middle of the fray and led to the head, before being torn from his attackers by colleagues.
Several national police crews – including the anti -crime brigade and the cynophile unit – intervened in reinforcement to bring calm back and disperse the troublemakers.
-A hospitalized police officer
Under a flood of insults, death threats and intimidation attempts, gauzeuses and a dissemination bomb would have been used by the police, reports.
Tuesday morning, the results brought the number of wounded in the brawl at least four agents (territorial and national), two of whom were taken care of by firefighters and transported to the Trousseau de Chambray-lès-Tours, we learned from police source.
In a joint statement released to the press late Tuesday afternoon, the prefect of Indre-et-Loire and the city of Tours specify that a police officer suffers from a skull fracture after having received a blow with the aid of a bruising object.
An investigation has been opened, which will have to identify the authors and establish the responsibilities of the people involved.
