He was to be referred this Monday evening after going through the drunk tank.
Saturday, a man offered himself a chase of all the dangers in the middle of Paris.
It is five o'clock in the morning when a night patrol of the BAC (Anti-Crime Squad) spots a BMW driving at top speed.
The sedan arrives from the rue de l'Amiral Coligny and enters the Quai du Louvre (I) "in skid".
The police blink when they see it "at an angle, at the limits of the grip of the vehicle", notes a police source.
In a turn he loses control
The police activated the flashing light and siren and pursued him on the Quai de la Mégisserie (1st).
The intimate patrol to the driver to stop.
He complies.
The police put down.
The driver restarts with a bang.
The police get back into the car, alert the units by radio.
A chase is on.
The police catch up with the fugitive quai de Gesvres (Ier).
And see the BMW slalom between the cars, then drive in the wrong direction and run through the red lights.
The car then reaches a speed of 180 km/h.
The police follow him 100 m behind.
Arrival quai des Célestins (IVe), the turn is fatal.
The driver loses control, hits a barrier, finds himself thrown from one sidewalk to the other, bounces, hits the sidewalk again.
So drunk he can't breathe
The BMW is on fire.
“The flames are three meters high,” notes a policeman.
The BAC patrol stops at a distance, runs towards the car and extracts the motorist from the passenger compartment.
Which is stunned, but conscious and slightly injured in the nose.
The man is handcuffed and placed in police custody.
The firefighters are called.
Aged 41, the driver, who lives in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne) "has glassy eyes, note the investigators, stuttering speech, and smells strongly of alcohol".
The BAC patrol then interrogates the files.
Unknown to the police, he is a driver's license holder.
The quadra is brought back to the police station of the IVth arrondissement.
Subjected to the breathalyzer, “he is so drunk that he cannot breathe”.
