Toulouse: Violent clash with the police: 2 years firm for the driver
A 30-year-old man was tried on Tuesday for hitting the police at the end of March, after a mad chase. Three police officers were injured.
In her police uniform, on the bench of the civil party of the judicial court, accompanied by her colleagues, she shows a very closed face. This night from March 19 to 20, around 4:40 a.m., while patrolling the streets of Toulouse, she thought she had lost her life.
“We are driving in Bagatelle when we see this vehicle, says a police officer from the BAC Left Bank first responder. We can see that he is driving at high speed because he almost overturns in a bend”. Refuse to comply. The hunt begins. “We follow him for about ten kilometres. Road to Saint-Simon, he almost hit a vehicle ”.
“We see the vehicle that hits them and flies away”
Determined to escape the police, the man heads for Ramelet-Moundi, on the border between Toulouse and Tournefeuille. “There, it was at 110 km / h”. At a roundabout, the BAC tries to stop its progress but the driver turns around. The BAC narrowly avoids it and then resumes the hunt.
“We see the colleagues arriving in front with their revolving lights and their two-tones, describes the policeman. We tell ourselves that it will stop but no. We see the vehicle colliding with that of our colleagues and flying away”.
In the face-to-face with the Clio, three peacekeepers in a screen-printed Peugeot 3008. One of them remembers: “We had gyro and buzzer. Logic would have it stop and there not. We see a mad driver coming.” The shock is ultra-violent. “We only owe the preservation of our physical integrity to our high-performance vehicle”.
The airbags are triggered. Injured, the female peacekeeper must be extricated. The driver is stopped. A 30-year-old man, no criminal record. By videoconference from the Seysses remand center, the man defended by Me Clémence Doumenc apologizes. ” I do not know what happend to me. I got scared. I was afraid of going to prison”. That evening, he was driving without a license and had consumed alcohol.
For the victims, Me Laurent Boguet thunders: “The impact is powerful and brutal. Vehicles are porridge. Prosecutor Peltier pays “homage” to the police. “They are devoured by this extremely violent experience. He could have stopped a thousand times”. He requires five years in prison, one of which is probationary.
The court sentenced him to three years in prison, one of which was suspended on probation. He remains in jail. The police, supported by representatives of the Alliance union, repent. They “needed this audience”.