Tension evening for the Ile-de-France police.
It all started shortly after 5 p.m. when a couple showed up at the Paris Vincennes administrative detention center (CRA), located on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes (12th arrondissement), to visit a man detained awaiting his expulsion from the territory. .
When checking the identity papers of these two visitors, the reception policeman discovers that they too are subject to an obligation to leave the territory.
The visit will be cut short.
The official then made a report to his colleagues to arrest the two individuals.
Especially since the man is registered in the file of wanted persons and filed S. A denomination which includes any person suspected of "undermining the security of the State or public security by the recourse or the active support brought to violence, as well as any person maintaining or having direct and non-incidental relations with such persons”.
The vehicle riddled with bullets found in Seine-Saint-Denis
The couple then fled.
Pregnant, the woman is quickly apprehended.
On the other hand, the man manages to reach a car where a driver was waiting for him.
They set off with a bang as the police pursuing them try to block their way.
Not enough to slow down the fugitives who will, according to police sources, run into them.
One official manages to get away just in time while the other opens fire and fires at least five times at the fleeing vehicle.
In their run, the fugitives will abandon one of the occupants of the vehicle, wounded by bullets, rue de Paris in Joinville-le-Pont (Val-de-Marne).
He was arrested by the Bac de Vincennes.
The 21-year-old suffered a shoulder injury.
His vital prognosis would not be engaged.
According to France Info, it would be the man on file S.
It was not until later in the evening that the vehicle, with bullet holes on the front and one side, was found near a squat, in Fontenay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis).
The police discover a man there who refuses, at first, to surrender, according to a police source, before finally being arrested.
Investigators carried out technical and scientific analyzes on site overnight.
The hypothesis of a terrorist act is not privileged for the moment.