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Gironde: a woman driving a truck rushes onto the terrace of a restaurant

2020-08-02T16:43:29.487Z


After a chase on Saturday evening with the gendarmes, the vehicle ended up against a tree in Blaye. The driver was hospitalized in


“When she restarted, she rushed at us. “Big fright, Saturday night, for this owner of a creperie in Blaye (Gironde) and his customers. A woman driving a truck overturned the restaurant terrace, before ending her mad race against a tree, reports Sud Ouest.

Around 9 p.m., while Jean-Marc Monnery and his son are taking care of customers, a white truck stops in front of the crêperie. "She had apparently stalled," says the merchant at the microphone of France Bleu Gironde.

The video surveillance images of the restaurant, broadcast by Sud Ouest, thus show the vehicle coming to a stop for about twenty seconds, before dashing onto the terrace. “We just had time to get out of the way, then she pulled it all off. "

Broken blinds, crushed chairs

Jean-Marc Monnery, in black on the video, his son, who wears a denim jacket, and the customers come out unscathed, or almost. Two individuals were lightly affected by the debris.

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"The blinds are broken, tables and chairs are crushed and two people suffer from slight bruises because they were affected by the fall of the blinds", explains the trader to France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

"At the time we were not too afraid, but it is now that we realize, after the fact," adds Jean-Marc Monnery, who intends to file a complaint to be reimbursed for the damage.

Spotted on the highway

The driver had been spotted a little earlier, around 8:30 p.m., on the A10 motorway near Saintes (Charente-Maritime). His truck of ten tons then brakes for no reason and zigzags. The gendarmerie is alerted.

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The soldiers signal to the young woman, a 30-year-old Girondine, to stop. In vain. She abruptly leaves the motorway, smashes through a toll gate and drives at full speed towards the citadel of Blaye.

After dark on the terrace of the restaurant, gunshots were heard, according to Jean-Marc Monnery. "A gendarme used his weapon, firing once at the tires to try to stop the vehicle", explains the vice-prosecutor of Libourne in South West.

Arrested, the young woman was "in a state of significant excitement". "We are not on the register of a terrorist attack", underlines the magistrate. She was transferred to a psychiatric ward, her condition having been deemed incompatible with police custody. The investigation was entrusted to the gendarmes of the company of Blaye.

Source: leparis

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