A police commander was knocked down and seriously injured during a road check Wednesday, May 24 in Vienna (Isère), said the police and the prosecutor's office, adding that two people were arrested after fleeing.
The accident occurred in the early afternoon on a roundabout in Vienna while several police officers were trying to carry out a check on a car. It forced the passage and hit the policeman, whose head hit the windshield. He was hospitalized in Lyon, suffering from "a head trauma and an open fracture to a leg". His prognosis is not engaged, according to police.
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The occupants of the car, who fled after the collision, were a 34-year-old man and a 17-year-old man, both arrested in the afternoon, as well as a 4-year-old child and a fourth person still "unidentified", told AFP the prosecutor of the Republic of Vienna Audrey Quey.
Under the influence of narcotics
An investigation in flagrance for "attempted homicide of a person holding public authority, refusal to comply aggravated by endangering the lives of others" as well as driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs "for the one who would be the driver" was opened, she added. Alcoholic, the latter "has not yet been heard," she said.
The prefect of Isère Laurent Prévost for his part expressed in a statement "his total support to the commander and his teammates" following this accident, noting that it comes "on the eve of the national tribute chaired by the head of state in Roubaix in honor of the three police officers who died last Sunday".
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The prefecture also notes that "47 agents of the national police, including the commander wounded today, and 35 gendarmes have been injured in the exercise of their duties" since the beginning of the year. "There were also 180 insults to officers or gendarmes over the same period. All these acts of violence and outrage are up 10% compared to the previous year," she said.
President Emmanuel Macron is expected Thursday in Roubaix (North) to pay tribute to the three young police officers killed in a collision Sunday with a vehicle whose driver was heavily drunk and drugged, announced Wednesday the Elysee.