A Bac police officer was injured by gunfire while intervening in a bank branch robbery

The Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, announced that a Bac de Bourges police officer was shot and injured on the night of Sunday 9 November to Monday 10 November.

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A police officer isseriously injured by gunfire“, this Monday, November 10 morning in Saint-Germain-du-Puy, near Bourges, in Cher. The agent intervened for a robbery, said the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, in a message posted on the social network X.

The police officer was shot in the arm, but his life was not in danger, a source close to the case told AFP.

The incident occurred at around 02.30, on the night of Sunday 9 November to Monday 10 November, according to the same source, when the criminals tried to rob a bank branch. According to the minister, officers of the Bac night police (anti-crime brigade) from Bourges and their teammates faced “with courage in a very difficult situation while the (robbery) perpetrators were targeting them“.

Everything is being done to find these criminal thugs“, added Laurent Nuñez.