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Epinay-Argenteuil: the chase with the municipal police ends in the Seine

2022-04-27T19:10:35.847Z


To escape a control of the municipal police of Epinay, this Wednesday evening, a man threw himself into the Seine in Argenteuil. After two hours


Twenty firefighters from Val-d'Oise mobilized in Argenteuil: Wednesday evening, the emergency services tried to find a man who had thrown himself into the Seine at the level of the Saint-Denis quay, near the A15 viaduct , to escape the municipal police of Epinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis).

But at 7:30 p.m., after about two hours of research carried out with staff from the Paris fire brigade, the man had not been found, confirms the Bobigny prosecution.

It all starts with a refusal to be checked by the municipal police.

A speeding vehicle takes off.

This Wednesday in Épinay-sur-Seine around 5 p.m., the recalcitrant motorist accelerated and fled.

The municipal police are in pursuit.

She loses track of her for a short time.

Then she finds the vehicle, empty, on the towpath, along the Seine.

The man threw himself between two barges

The driver fled on foot and is still on the shore.

"When he sees the municipal police, he panics and throws himself into the water between two barges," said a source close to the investigation.

At this point, they left Épinay and passed through the adjoining town of Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise) on the Quai Saint-Denis.

A municipal policeman in turn jumps into the river to fish him out.

But he can't find it.

He senses that he is struggling and quickly emerges from the water, which is freezing cold.

When the agent returns to solid ground, he is immediately taken care of.

He is freezing and in a state of hypothermia.

The investigation is taken over by the national police who have jurisdiction to seize the abandoned vehicle.

The driver has disappeared.

At the moment, research is still in progress, carried out by specialized teams of firefighters.

Twenty professionals are still on site trying to find him.

They mobilized six machines.

An identical incident occurred in September 2020. To escape the police, three young people got rid of their vehicle before jumping into the Seine with the aim of reaching the opposite bank and L'Île-Saint-Denis .

Four police officers had dived in and managed to fish out the fugitives.

Source: leparis

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