Rioters attempted to kill police officers in Bordeaux

Rioters blocked the Capucins police station in Bordeaux and set it on fire, according to French MEP Valet. Officers were trapped inside.

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A group of rioters blocked the entrance to the Capucins police station in Bordeaux and set it on fire, as French MEP Valet denounced. Officers were trapped inside and had to evacuate after suffering smoke inhalation.

French MEP **Valet** denounced that rioters attempted to kill police officers in **Bordeaux**. According to his account, the group blocked the entrance to the **Capucins** police station and then set it on fire. The intention, he claims, was to prevent the officers from leaving the building.

## Smoke at the station and evacuation of officers

Smoke filled the entire police station while the crowd cheered from outside. Officers tried to put out the flames, but suffered smoke inhalation and had to evacuate the building.

Valet described what peine as "a incivil act of extreme gravity" and added that "we could have had a massacre." He called for the perpetrators to be found and prosecuted for attempted murder.

## The Viry-Châtillon precedent

The MEP linked these events to the attack in **Viry-Châtillon**, which took place ten years earlier, where several police officers died burned alive while trapped in their patrol car. "Nothing has changed," he lamented.

The comparison places the episode within a series of attacks against officers in France. It is the MEP's political assessment, not an established fact.

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