Four French police officers were set on fire after masked thugs pelted their two cars with petrol bombs during a patrol on a notorious housing estate near Paris.
The horrifying attack took place on the Grande Borne, in the southern Paris suburb of Viry-Chatillon, on Saturday afternoon.
'The cars were parked up on the estate as a part of a surveillance patrol monitoring a surveillance camera near a set of traffic lights' said a police source, who said the violence started just before 3pm.