A Geneva police officer has been given an 18-month suspended prison sentence for firing his service weapon inside the police station on Boulevard Carl-Vogt while drunk.
In all he fired seven shots at the rubbish bin. One of his colleagues was injured by a ricochet.
Despite being drunk, the officer then took his colleague to the hospital in a police car, using the lights and sirens.
The shooting was two years ago, but a court has just handed down the sentence.
He’d already been sacked.
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