The man suspected of having slightly injured five police officers during a refusal to comply in Anglet, near Bayonne, was indicted for attempted murder of a police officer, we learned this Wednesday, September 28 at the prosecutor's office.
On the night of last Saturday to Sunday, while police intervened to put an end to an urban rodeo, the suspect had tried to escape their control and injured five of them slightly.
After fleeing, he had abandoned his vehicle, stolen.
He was finally arrested Monday evening in another car with his partner, and placed in police custody.
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Placed in pre-trial detention after his presentation to a judge of freedoms and detention, he is also prosecuted for aggravated refusal to comply, violence with a weapon, theft and driving without a license.
The 41-year-old man is a repeat offender, he had already been convicted several times for similar acts.
His companion, arrested on Monday aboard a stolen car, is being prosecuted for concealment of theft, possession and use of narcotics.
