A 38-year-old driver hit a group of cyclists on Saturday November 12. Placed in police custody, he told the gendarmes that he had intentionally targeted them. He was charged and remanded in custody.
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According to the first elements of the investigation, the act was deliberate. This Saturday, November 12 in the afternoon, a motorist struck from behind a group of twelve cyclists who were on a bike ride, in the town of Sadirac, in Gironde.
Four of them were injured in the accident. Two are still hospitalized at the Pellegrin Hospital, and for one of them, the risk of tetraplegia is not excluded.
The driver, a 38-year-old man born in Sainte-Foy la Grande, was quickly arrested by the gendarmes and immediately taken into custody. “He indicated during his police custody that he wanted to run into people”indicates the parquet floor of Bordeaux.
The driver’s custody ended on Monday afternoon. A judicial investigation for intentional homicide has been opened. Charged, he was remanded in custody.
The violence of the accident and its deliberate nature shocked cycling enthusiasts. “They weren’t in the right place at the right time.how a member of the Artigues Vélo Club. The whole group was in its place, on the lower side, sheltered from traffic, one behind the other. They didn’t see it happen“, he specifies. “How can we get into situations where people say to themselves: I’m going to take the car and I’m going to kill people? “he asks himself.
He would have found a group of pedestrians or hikers by the side of the road, he would have done the same thing. We are a little helpless in the face of people like that.
A member of the Artigues cycling clubat France 3 Aquitaine
The toxicological screenings carried out on the motorist are negative. A psychological expertise was also carried out, without knowing, at this stage, its conclusions.