The driver thought he was safe.
After refusing to comply in Dreux (Eure-et-Loir), this 34-year-old man thought he would reach his home in Limeil-Brévannes without incident.
But it was without counting on the tenacity of the police.
At the end of an incredible chase, during which the fugitive struck a police car, the police were able to handcuff him not far from the town hall of Créteil on Friday evening.
It all started nearly 90 km from the prefecture of Val-de-Marne, in Dreux, when the driver of a Renault Clio refused to comply during a control of a patrol of the anti-crime brigade (Bac).
It is 9.45 p.m.
The driver manages to leave them behind and heads for the Paris region.
Followed from afar by the gendarmes
Only the police have a weapon faster than a car, the radio.
With the registration number of the suspect vehicle, they go back to an address in Val-de-Marne.
The alert is launched.
On the way, a patrol of a surveillance and intervention platoon of the gendarmerie (PSIG) of Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines) crosses the suspect and discreetly takes charge as far as the A86.
Alerted, a Créteil night ferry patrol approached an exit ramp when it saw the suspicious car tumble at very high speed on the N406.
The driver must also brake to avoid the impact.
Immediately, he activated the rotating beacon and stuck behind the driver who was driving towards Limeil-Brévannes.
He takes all the risks
The man accelerates, runs red lights, passes at full speed on speed bumps, connects the roundabouts then returns towards Créteil.
There, two police cars get in his way.
The driver does not care and rushes, forcing the police to step back to avoid the impact.
The latter then ease off so as not to cause an accident, unlike the runaway who takes all the risks, overtakes a bus in the middle of a bend and finds himself in the wrong direction. He managed to avoid a frontal impact with a car coming in front, not without tearing off a piece of bodywork.
A little further, the driver tries everything for everything and avoids a
stock stick
- a small harrow thrown by the police on the road - in another roundabout taken in the wrong direction. In his escape, the driver finally finds himself in a dead end. He slows down, turns around and forces the passage by hitting the Bac patrol from the front. The police car comes to a halt. The driver and front passenger, stunned by the explosion of the airbags, come to their senses when their rear teammate leaves and goes to call out to the fugitive whose end-of-life vehicle has stopped a few meters away.
The policeman then breaks the driver's window and tries to extract it, but the driver resists.
It will take the help of other colleagues to handcuff him.
It is 10:40 p.m.
Without a license and under the influence of narcotics, the suspect, already known to the courts, particularly in the context of narcotics cases, was taken into custody at the Créteil police station.
The police, examined by the firefighters, came out with very minor injuries.
