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In Lyon, the driver of a van who mowed down a police officer denies any desire to kill

2022-11-07T20:01:42.299Z


“I just wanted to run away”: Farès D. admits to being the driver of a getaway van which fatally mowed down a police officer in 2020 but denies...


I just wanted to run away

”: Farès D. admits to being the driver of a getaway van which fatally mowed down a police officer in 2020 but denies any intention to kill, during his trial which opened on Monday 7 November in front of the assizes of the Rhône.

At 24, his face still young, he was tried for murder of a person holding public authority in the exercise of his functions.

Because he is a repeat offender - he previously appeared before a criminal court for aggravated burglary, for which he risked at least 10 years in prison - he faces life imprisonment.

The question is to know if he measured the consequences, and if beyond that, his will was to kill.

The whole debate of this audience is that.

And I am firmly convinced that he never had this intention

, ”declared to the press his lawyer Me Julien Charle.

"A horror sight"

To fully understand the circumstances in which the police officer Franck Labois died, we must immerse ourselves in an investigation by the departmental security which has been monitoring a team of criminals for some time.

About fifteen facts are attributed to them, according to the same method: violent cargo thefts while pretending to be the police.

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In early January 2020, the Operational Support Group (GAO), to which Franck Labois belongs, comes to support the investigation.

On the night of January 10 to 11, the police decided to arrest the criminals after having observed a new theft in the act.

That night, they attacked a laundry load on a motorway rest area in Isère.

Opportunists

,” said one of the witnesses, a police major, describing sometimes ill-prepared criminals.

The director of the GAO gives a precise account of the intervention at the bar, even if he followed it from a distance because his car was a few minutes late.

His voice breaks when he describes his arrival at the scene of the tragedy.

Franck is lying, and there it is a vision of horror

”, describes the police commander.

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I saw a space

A little earlier that evening, the attempted interception took place when the Volkswagen van carrying the stolen goods returned to the outskirts of Lyon.

The van found itself pinned by two vehicles, came to a halt briefly, then suddenly made a maneuver to get free.

And hit Franck Labois head-on, standing in his way, gun in hand.

Franck may have thought too much

”, tries to understand his boss, who specifies that since July 2017 “

at the GAO we have never used the weapon

”.

There will be no trace of braking on the ground.

The samples suggest that the policeman was dragged about ten meters.

His bulletproof vest suffered extensive damage from the force of the impact.

He died three days later in hospital.

The occupants of the van abandon it in haste.

The objects found, including partly charred gloves, and telephone geolocations will make it possible to identify and locate several suspects, including Farès D., arrested on January 16.

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“Playing superhero”

According to the investigators, he immediately recognizes that he is the driver.

I didn't want to do that.

I saw a space, I accelerated without telling myself that I was going to hit

it, ”he said at the end of the first day of hearing.

The clumsy and imprecise testimonies of the two other young people present in the vehicle that night did not shed light on all the circumstances of the tragedy, in particular when they understood that they were dealing with the police and when or how. they realized they had just run over a policeman.

In conversations tapped at the prison where he is in pre-trial detention, Farès D. affirms to relatives that the policeman put himself in front of him, and wanted to "

play the superhero

".

It was him or me

,” he says, according to the transcripts.

Words that the accused now claims to regret.

"

I have a lot of regrets, despite what I may have said

," he said.

The verdict is expected on Wednesday.

Source: lefigaro

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