Police officers on a pedestrian patrol used their weapon on a car which
"rushed"
on them after an attempted control, Saturday evening in Bordeaux, and an occupant of the vehicle was shot in the neck, we have learned Sunday from the prosecution.
Four members of a Republican Security Company (CRS) were patrolling on foot Saturday shortly before midnight in the Saint-Michel district, in the city center, when they approached a vehicle, stopped on the roadway to proceed to a control. At around 11:40 p.m., the Volkswagen driving at high speed and making a lot of noise had attracted the attention of the police, reports the daily Sud Ouest. The police then tried to stop the occupants at the corner of rue Saint-François and rue du Mirail, while the car was blocked by another vehicle.
According to the prosecution, the car then reversed quickly and
"deliberately dark"
in the direction of the officers.
Two of them,
"cornered"
, opened fire on the vehicle which stopped "a
few tens of meters further"
.
Inside, an individual shot in the neck was arrested and then hospitalized.
It would be a 19-year-old man, specifies
Sud Ouest
.
He could not be taken into custody due to his state of health.
This man was not the only occupant of the car but their number could not be determined, the first testimonies not agreeing, explained the prosecution which specifies that no other person was arrested.
The police,
"shocked",
were not injured, according to the same source.
After an increase in delinquency in Saint-Michel in 2020, a local group for the treatment of delinquency (GLTD) - associating the prefecture, police, prosecutor's office, town hall and local associations - had been set up at the beginning of the year in this regard. popular district of the center.
It has just been closed by the authorities, who have argued a decrease in attacks on people and property.