Le Figaro Bordeaux
He was drunk and absolutely unwilling to be controlled. And for good reason: the individual that the gendarmes tried to arrest in the parking lot of the Intermarché of Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Monday at 17:15, is "unfavorably known for multiple traffic offenses". Getting out of their vehicle to carry out the usual checks, the soldiers faced a recalcitrant motorist. Refusing to comply, the forty-year-old "started abruptly and hit a gendarme" in the legs, before fleeing.
The fight of the gendarmerie of the Gironde was then activated while the victim was transferred urgently to the CHU Pellegrin in Bordeaux. All available patrols, as well as the group's helicopter, contributed to the arrest of the fugitive near Lormont around 18:35 p.m. The hearings of the aggressor, placed in a sobering-up cell, then in custody this Tuesday morning, were underway.
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'Frequent refusals to comply'
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We always approach the controls by focusing on security, but unfortunately these refusals to comply are more and more frequent, "deplores a military source, stressing that "the main thing is that the responsiveness of the services has made it possible to arrest this individual". The traffic offence is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of €15,000.
The investigation was entrusted to Blaye's company. The injured gendarme, who was diagnosed with a broken ankle, was operated on Tuesday morning.