Paris police PROTEST: Hundreds take to streets at anti-cop hatred after NYE attack

The shocking video footage of an unnamed female police officer and her boss being savagely beaten up by a gang of violent revellers in the Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne in the early hours of Monday sparked a torrent of outrage after it was posted online by one of the alleged thugs. 

Two officers arrived at a house in the Paris suburb following reports of widespread disorder outside the address, where a New Year’s Eve party was taking place. 

Both suffered a concussion and numerous injuries, including a broken nose, but are expected to make a full recovery. 

The French government was quick to condemn the attack: president Emmanuel Macron promised to “find and punish” those behind the “cowardly and criminal lynching,” while interior minister Gérard Collomb said that an attack on the country’s security forces was an “attack on the French Republic”.  

Police officers told AFP they had taken to the streets to denounce the rise in anti-cop hatred. 

Alain, a 55-year-old police officer, said: “It’s not normal for police officers to be beaten to a pulp by a gang of young thugs. 

“I’ve been a police officer for 28 years and our job just keeps getting worse and worse.

Benoît, 35, added: “I’m sick of this anti-cop hatred.  

“Thugs operate with impunity.

“They know they won’t actually end up in jail. 

“Most of them are released within hours of their arrest.” 

Frédéric Lagache, deputy secretary general of Alliance, France’s main police trade union, said Mr Macron’s government had to do more to protect the country’s police.  

Mr Lagache told AFP: “Every time a police officer is attacked, whoever is in power at the time promises to punish those responsible and do more to protect police. 

“And yet nothing is ever done, and nothing ever changes.” 

Eight police officers, four gendarmes and three anti-terror Sentinel soldiers were injured on New Year’s Eve, an interior ministry spokesperson said on Monday.