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On the night of Monday to Tuesday in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes), municipal police tried to arrest a motorist who was driving dangerously and had just committed multiple offences.
But the driver refused to comply and continued on his way in a determined way, indicates a police source to
Figaro
, confirming the facts related in
Nice-Matin
.
Then began a chase between his Nissan Micra and several police vehicles.
The facts took place in the heart of the city, towards the Croisette.
First, at Avenue Picaud in La Bocca, then at the Patienro promenade, near the Palais des Festivals.
An agent, who got out of his car to question him, suffered minor leg injuries.
The driver, he continued his crazy race and dark rue d'Antibes, against the traffic.
“An extremely dangerous journey,
describes a police source in
Figaro.
He was like in a tunnel effect, inhabited by the will of a chase.
No criminal record
Faced with this behavior, the municipal police had to shoot twice, without touching the motorist.
He ended his race by deliberately hitting a national police vehicle that came as reinforcements.
This one is badly damaged.
Arrested, the 23-year-old man is currently in custody at the Cannes police station.
The profile of the individual turns out to be
“quite complicated”
.
He is unknown to the police, so he has no criminal record.
He did have his driver's license and to commit these acts, had borrowed his parents' car.
According to the first elements, it would be a psychiatric problem which would have made him switch to this “trip”.
The hypothesis of a desire to end it is considered.