Toulouse: The smuggler of contraband cigarettes is hit on the device
Back from Andorra, two cigarette smugglers wanted to flee from the police. One of them, on foot, was hit by a car on the bypass.
With his sidekick, he went to great lengths to escape the police and could have stayed there. A man was hit by a car around 5 a.m. on Sunday on the Toulouse ring road. It all started a little earlier in the Papus sector in Toulouse. A patrol from the Left Bank BAC spotted an Audi estate vehicle whose two occupants were behaving suspiciously.
When being checked, the driver is accelerated. He fled and took all the risks, such as not braking on the speed bumps. The driver managed to reach the ring road, still followed by the police. Then he left the bypass at Cépière. His excesses ended up damaging the car which lost a lot of oil and broke down.
Border crossing on foot
The two occupants fled and one jumped on the access embankment to the ring road. It was there that he was hit by a vehicle. The police called the emergency services who took him in and transported him to the hospital. His days were not in danger. His sidekick was arrested. In the Audi, investigators found 130 cartons of contraband cigarettes and 62 cartons of hand-rolling tobacco. Both men admitted to being back from Andorra. One of them had crossed the border, on foot, through the mountains before being picked up by the car and returning to Toulouse. In police custody, these 30-year-old and 41-year-old men were admitted, in front of departmental security investigators, to make two trips a month. They will be judged quickly by the criminal court.