The fire broke out Thursday night at around 21 pm. On the sidelines of a rally in Dallas to denounce police violences against the black American community in the United States, five policemen were killed and six others wounded by gunfire.
The Dallas' Chief of Police, David Brown, said during a press conference that two snipers opened fire on ten policemen from high positions. Another shooting, in which an eleventh officer was hit, broke out between the police and another suspect. The latter said he had placed bombs "everywhere", said David Brown. "The suspect with whom we are negotiating and who exchanged fire with us over the last 45 minutes said to our negotiators there are bombs everywhere" in the city center, said Chief of the police.
American TV channels earlier reported that several traffic officers were targeted by gunfire in downtown Dallas, where protesters had gathered to denounce what they consider as the murder of two black people by white policemen in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Minneapolis.
According to the local forces of order, shooters, whose motive is not yet known, have also threatened to place a bomb in downtown Dallas. Two suspects were arrested, mostly Dallas' police said in a statement posted on Twitter. But there, the authorities explain that the identification of suspects is difficult.
Earlier, authorities posted a photo of a suspect, a black man wearing a camouflage shirt and an automatic assault rifle slung in the middle of the protesters. Except that there is no indication at this stage that he participated in the shooting. The latter went to the local authorities after his photo circulated on social networks.
Since the start of protests against police violence in the US, and race riots that across the country last year, never such an event had occurred. The officers were deliberately targeted.
Source : RFI
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