The motorist accused of having grabbed a police officer on a motorcycle on Sunday in the Rivière-des-Prairies sector in Montreal is a real danger on the roads who is racking up thousands of dollars in tickets.
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Speeding, refusing to comply, driving without a license or during a ban… Just in the last two years, Christopher Desrosiers has been fined more than $4,000 in all kinds of traffic tickets.
But this time, the 26-year-old will have to answer criminal charges, which earned him an appearance Monday at the Montreal courthouse.
In addition to a charge of dangerous driving, he will have to defend himself from serious and armed assault [son véhicule] against a police officer of the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), of having fled the police, as well as of a hit-and-run causing injury.
These crimes would have occurred Sunday morning, during a radar operation in the east of Montreal, when the agent Mickael Cherrier would have tried to intercept the vehicle of Desrosiers.
According to our information, stuck in a cul-de-sac, Desrosiers made a U-turn and then hit the officer before fleeing.
Officer Cherrier suffered multiple fractures in both legs and ribs, in addition to having his lung punctured, but he is out of danger, Montreal police said.
Full of offenses
Desrosiers, for his part, was spotted by an SQ policewoman who was not on duty and who would have followed him to the South Shore of Montreal while waiting for reinforcements to arrest him, we were told. learned.
According to a judicial database, Desrosiers is a regular in violations of the Highway Safety Code, accumulating more than forty statements of offense.
And the driving bans do not seem to have any effect on him, since he has been intercepted three times since January, just for that.
Last December, he was also arrested for refusing to stop at the request of a police officer.
His most recent criminal conviction was last month, when he was convicted of driving despite being banned.
Risky job
The director general of the SQ, for her part, deplored the crime against the police officer.
“An event like this reminds us all of what our police officers can face in the course of their daily duties,” said Johanne Beausoleil.
“When a police officer is seriously injured in the exercise of these functions, the entire police community is shaken,” she continued.
The one who personally contacted Agent Cherrier on Monday said she was “proud” of the work done “by our police officers day after day”.