A man who had hit a policeman while trying to flee a police check at the end of June in Carcassonne before being seriously injured was indicted for attempted homicide, AFP learned from the Narbonne prosecutor's office on Saturday.
On June 23, the driver of forty years had engaged in a chase in the narrow streets of the center of Carcassonne.
He had slightly injured a policeman.
The driver had been seriously hit by a gun.
His family then lodged a complaint with the Carcassonne prosecutor's office for intentional assault and battery.
The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) was then seized.
When he woke up, after 40 days in a coma, he was presented to the prosecution on Tuesday in his wheelchair, on oxygen, says his lawyer Franck Alberti.
Indicted for "
attempted murder of a person holding public authority
", this man was placed under judicial supervision, before being hospitalized again at the University Hospital of Purpan, in Toulouse, due to an unexplained high fever. .
He could not be heard on the facts because of his condition.
The prosecution, which had requested his placement in pre-trial detention, appealed.
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The man's family, relying on a video of the arrest shot by a local resident, claimed at the end of June that he was shot when he had already left his vehicle.
The Marseille IGPN was then seized of the head of "
willful violence with a weapon by persons holding public authority
".