released from forty days of coma, a fugitive was indicted for injuring a police officer

The man who had hit a policeman while trying to flee a police check at the end of June in Carcassonne (Aude) was indicted for attempted homicide, AFP learned from the Narbonne (Aude) prosecutor’s office on Saturday August 6. . Seriously injured in the chase,he man was presented to the prosecution on Tuesday in his wheelchair, on oxygen, reports his lawyer, Franck Alberti. He had woken up from a coma for forty days. Indicted for “attempted murder of a person holding public authority”the driver was placed under judicial supervision.

The man was then hospitalized again at the University Hospital of Purpan, in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), due to an unexplained high fever. He could not be heard on the facts because of his condition. The prosecution, which had requested his placement in pre-trial detention, appealed.

The driver in his forties had engaged in a chase in the narrow streets of the center of Carcassonne, Thursday, June 23. He had slightly injured a policeman, while he himself had was seriously hit by a gun.

His family had afterwards lodged a complaint with the Carcassonne public prosecutor’s office for intentional assault and battery. leaning son a video of the arrest shot by a local resident, sare close claim that he was hit by the shots when he had already left his vehicle. The general inspectorate of the national police of Marseilles was then seized of the head of “willful violence with a weapon by persons holding public authority”.