Attack in an ambulance, criminal charges, meeting in the prefecture… The firefighters of the Puy-de-Dôme department are sounding the alarm in the face of increasing violence during operations. A routine operation for the firefighters. On May 24, they were called out to Riom to help a man who had suffered a fainting spell at work. They put him on a stretcher, put him in the ambulance and drive him to hospital.
But in the vehicle, the sick man no longer seemed really ill: “He came loose and pushed my colleague against the doors of the ambulance. He grabbed his neck with his hands,” says Sergeant Ludovic, head of the fire department. I put my knee on his chest and held him by the wrists until the police arrived. He tried to bite me and shouted “Allah Akbar”.