He had refused to submit to a roadside check before fleeing and hitting a gendarme.
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The driver who refused to comply in Pugnac in Gironde on Wednesday before seriously injuring a gendarme is indicted, reports France Bleu Gironde on Saturday October 22. The 21-year-old man was remanded in custody. The individual is indicted for “attempted intentional homicide on a person holding public authority” according to the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office.
A judicial inquiry is open. The suspect was also remanded in custody, pending a further hearing before a liberty judge and detention scheduled for October 26. He denies any intention of homicide.
On Wednesday October 19, the driver refused to submit to a roadside check before fleeing and seriously injuring a gendarme. He finally went to the Saint-André-de-Cubzac gendarmerie the next day. Already convicted by the Bordeaux Criminal Court in 2021 for driving without a license, he was driving without papers or insurance when he refused to comply. The young man had also used cannabis.
The overthrown constable, 48, suffered multiple fractures, a pneumothorax and injuries caused by abrasion with the ground during the accident. These injuries could”according to doctors“, train “very serious consequences“according to the parquet floor of Bordeaux.