Teen charged after PSNI officer knocked unconscious during Covid breach investigation
A 17-year-old has now been charged with offences including assault on police. By Ian Curran Sunday 2 May 2021, 4:57 PM 3 hours ago 6,052 Views 0 Comments
Image: PA
Image: PA
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy has been charged in connection with an assault on police officers last Friday evening in Fintona, Co Tyrone, the PSNI has said.
Two officers were injured while investigating reports of Covid regulation breaches and underage drinking at a licensed premise on Friday evening.
One of the PSNI officers was knocked unconscious and taken to hospital as a precaution.
A 17-year-old, who was arrested at the scene, has now been charged with offences including assault on police, resisting police and disorderly behaviour.
FRENCH authorities have opened an investigation into accusations that government ministers have been breaching Covid rules to dine in clandestine restaurants.
Restaurants in France have been closed since October and the country has just entered a renewed lockdown, with schools being shuttered as coronavirus infections threaten to overwhelm the healthcare system.
A whistleblower anonymously told a French documentary broadcast over the Easter weekend that he had dined with “a certain number of ministers” at secret eateries.
The claim has inflamed public anger at the government, whose approval ratings have been hit its poor handling of the pandemic – almost 100,000 people have died of coronavirus in France. Opinion polls show far-right leader Marine Le Pen neck and neck with President Emmanuel Macron, whose crackdown on alleged Muslim “separatism” is widely seen as a bid to outflank Ms Le Pen on the right.
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