The scene would be funny if it were not otherwise dramatic.
Thursday February 25, the gendarmerie of Nièvre is alerted to the suspicious presence of a tractor equipped with a trailer on the A77 motorway near the city of Châtillon-sur-Loire in Loiret.
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A motorized peloton from La Charité-sur-Loire intercepts it, temporarily blocking traffic on the D33
", tells France 3 Center Val de Loire.
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Submitted to a blood alcohol test, the driver turns out to be drunk, but asks the gendarmes, whom he must follow, if he can pick up his things left in his tractor.
But rather to come back to them, he ... restarts in his vehicle and begins to flee.
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Launched at 30 km / h on the road, the tractor driver refuses to stop and tries several times to hit the vehicles of the gendarmes.
Finally, blinded by spotlights from the surveillance and intervention squad of the Cosne-sur-Loire gendarmerie, who came as reinforcements, he ended up cutting off the contact before being arrested,
”says France 3 Center Val de Loire.
The fugitive, who was fined 135 euros for non-compliance with the curfew, is due to appear next September before the Nevers court.
He risks a conviction of another gravity: 5 years of imprisonment and a 75,000 euros fine.
