Police officer slightly injured after being hit by a hit-and-run driver while refusing to comply in Yvelines

The driver fled the scene before being arrested several dozen minutes later.

A municipal police officer was hospitalized, with no life-threatening condition, after being hit by a hit-and-run driver on Wednesday afternoon, September 18, after refusing to comply in Chesnay (Yvelines), franceinfo learned from a police source, confirming information from the JDD.

According to this source, the police officer, aged around fifty, was hit by this reckless driver around 4:40 p.m. after refusing to comply. The police officer, who was thrown before falling to the ground, was slightly injured and was hospitalized.

The driver fled the scene before being arrested a few dozen minutes later on the Paris ring road near the 15th arrondissement of the capital. “New refusal to comply: our full support for the municipal police officer who was cowardly knocked down and thrown to the ground in Chesnay”, reacts to X the resigning Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. “The accused was arrested in a stolen vehicle. Unwavering support for the police.”

“It’s obviously extremely violent,” declared the mayor of Chesnay, Richard Delepierre, to France Bleu Paris. “It’s an event that happens in broad daylight, at school time, in a residential area, under people’s windows.” “The moment, the time and the place really shock me because we think that there is no longer any place, no time that is protected in our communities today.”he concludes.