The scene was fully filmed by a witness.
During the night from Friday to Saturday, young people in a stolen vehicle deliberately drove into a police car in Villeneuve-sur-Lot in Lot-et-Garonne, reports
Sud-Ouest
.
Two police officers were injured during the violent crash.
“
Shameless thugs
”
The incident took place around midnight.
A car reported as stolen was spotted by the gendarmerie and then chased by a surveillance platoon.
On the spot, police officers from Villeneuve-sur-Lot come to lend a hand to the gendarmes and try to block the road to the fleeing car at the level of a roundabout.
But the driver refused to stop and rammed into the police vehicle, as evidenced by the video shared on Twitter by the police union Synergie Officiers, which denounced the act as "
shameless thugs
".
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According to our colleagues from
Sud-Ouest
, two police officers were injured, the first in the knee while the second suffered from a “
cervical spine injury and thoracic contusions.
They were respectively prescribed two and ten days of temporary incapacity for work (ITT).
The fugitives, aged 14 to 17, were all arrested and then placed in police custody.
