Motorist throws himself into the Saint-Denis canal to avoid a police check. In hypothermia, he was taken by firefighters to Saint-Louis hospital before being placed in police custody.

Another man, present in the vehicle when he refused to comply, was also arrested. The suspect is drunk and driving without his driver's license. On January 13, a 25-year-old young man was found dead a few days after falling into the same canal in the early morning after leaving a nightclub.