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MowCowWhoHow III

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Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:14 PM Oct 2016

French police injured in 'unspeakable' Molotov cocktail attack

Source: AFP

Paris (AFP) - Four police officers were injured on a notorious working class housing estate near Paris on Saturday in a Molotov cocktail attack President Francois Hollande slammed as "unspeakable".

"Everything will be done to find the perpetrators of this attack and bring them to justice so they receive a sentence in-keeping with the severity of their crime," said the president.

Hollande said the attack in Grande Borne, a residential residential area built in the 1960s in Paris' southern suburbs, was "unspeakable and intolerable because it endangered the lives of officers whose job was to protect the population".

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said two officers "were violently attacked with incendiary bombs while they were on a surveillance mission in the Grande Borne high security zone."

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/french-police-injured-molotov-cocktail-attack-170120763.html



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