Perhaps he thought, for a moment, in a video game where the goal is to escape the police without ever worrying about the risks taken.
A ten-year-old child was arrested on Tuesday in Marquette-lez-Lille (North) driving a stolen car after a chase with the police, we learned on Wednesday from the Departmental Directorate of public security (DDSP).
According to this source, the vehicle, stolen a week earlier in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, was spotted by the police in the middle of the afternoon.
He is then followed by the police, who try to intercept him.
The driver spots them, "flees and tries by all means" to escape the police, but he hits the sidewalk, which results in the puncture of the two left wheels, according to the account of the DDSP.
He then walks into a parking lot and his car - a 3008, according to another police source - hits a pole when it comes out.
The young boy finally "fled on foot" and was finally arrested for "refusing to comply" and "concealing a vehicle".
Not a first in the region
He is taken to the police station, where the police realize that he has just turned ten.
Handed over to "his civilian manager", according to the DDSP, he will soon be summoned before the children's judge to explain himself.
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A case which is reminiscent of another file from last August, in Abbeville (Somme), when an 11-year-old child was checked behind the wheel of a cart with his drunken father by his side.
Also in the same department, in January, a young 13-year-old driver was flashed at 162 km / h on the highway when he was returning from the Paris region with three other minor teenagers aboard an Alfa Romeo.
The regional daily La Voix du Nord recalls that a 12-year-old child had already been arrested in the Nord department, in Cuincy, last August when he was indulging in a wild rodeo and had tried to flee. the police men.