The chase scene in the middle of the 15th arrondissement did not escape panic-stricken residents who quietly did their shopping on Sunday near the Beaugrenelle shopping center.
This Monday, moreover, two suspected dealers were taken into custody at the district police station.
These two young Parisians, aged 20 and 21, known to the police, who delivered their cannabis, saw their tour hampered by a traffic check!
"From there, everything went into a lollipop", summarizes a source close to the file.
A passer-by tries to intervene and receives a punch
It is 4 p.m. on Sunday when two men in their black Citroën C3 refuse to stop in front of the 15th district GSQ (neighborhood support group) patrol, stationed at the Beaugrenelle crossroads. The duo then fled rue Linois (15th arrondissement), taking the cycle path in the opposite direction, creating panic. Then the two men lose control of the vehicle. The car crashes on a concrete block.
The individuals fled on foot, pursued by the police, a little far behind.
A passer-by tries to stop their course.
In return, he receives a punch in the face.
An official in civilian clothes, and off duty, also gets in their way and manages with the patrol to catch up with the duo who are immobilized, neutralized and handcuffed.
In the car - "completely exploded, good for the breakage", details a witness -, the police officers get their hands on nearly half a kilo of cannabis resin, conditioned, ready for sale.
They will be presented to a judge this Wednesday
The two men should be referred on Wednesday, prosecuted for refusing to comply, driving under the influence of drugs, possession of drugs, acts of violence - the passer-by who took a violent punch has filed a complaint - but also "Refusal to hand over a secret decryption convention of cryptology means likely to have been used to prepare, facilitate or commit a crime or an offense". Translate: they refused to give their phone code. “Obviously,” commented someone close to the case, “there is their address book, all the traffic information. The investigators have a lot to exploit. “They will probably leave for 96 hours in police custody”.
During the first hearings, the dealers weren't very talkative… “The only thing the main suspect gave up was that he was hungry because he had only eaten his breakfast in the cell. For lunch, he didn't like pasta. The dealers took risks during their chase in a very pedestrian area, near a shopping center. They could also be prosecuted for endangering the life of others "It is a miracle that there were no injuries", comments a police officer.
In August 2020, another chase with a drug dealer ended in tragedy.
A 59-year-old man was fatally shot.
After hitting a taxi and a police car, the driver, driving a Peugeot 2008 loaded with 1.1 kg of herbal cannabis, made a fatal reverse gear at 80 km / h on Boulevard Montparnasse (6th arrondissement). ).
