From the top of his 14 years, his fate was in the hands of the juvenile judge at the judicial court of Paris, door of Clichy (XIVth), this Friday. A young man was referred to the prosecutor's office at the end of his police custody for aggravated refusal to comply, driving under the influence of drugs, driving without a license and carrying category D weapons. Thursday, at 4 am, this young Parisian managed to surprise police officers yet experienced in incredible scenarios.
The teenager was spotted by a crew of the BAC (Anti-Crime Brigade) at night, in the center of the capital, rue de la Paix (IIe), while he was driving a Toyota Yaris. The young driver, accompanied by another miner, was driving at full speed and in the wrong direction on a bike path. The police ordered him to stop, but the driver refused to comply and restarted as dry. This was followed by a chase at the other end of Paris, 7 km away.
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The vehicle was stopped in its course rue Claude Decaen (XIIth), next to the Bois de Vincennes but the duo, feeling surrounded, decided to abandon the Toyota and took his legs to his neck. Without much success, since the police managed to arrest them. Surprise, the driver was a minor, without a de facto license, and known to the police. The control of the registration of the vehicle, abandoned a little further, made it possible to establish that the Toyota had been reported stolen for several days. A ball gun was inside.
The two cannabis-positive teenagers
Taken to the station, the teenager and his sidekick tested positive for cannabis. The young driver was then taken into custody and then brought in. In court, the magistrate retained the endangerment taken during his escape by car. In his journey, he almost ran over two pedestrians.
In November 2022, a similar news item took place rue de l'Ourcq, in the nineteenth arrondissement. A 17-year-old driver of a stolen car with a false license plate refused to comply with police orders. And finished his race, after crashing several cars, jumping into the Canal Saint-Denis. The police had to rescue him. They threw him a buoy and pulled him out of the water.
In France, according to police unions, a refusal to comply occurs every twenty minutes, sometimes injuring police officers and motorists and causing death. A phenomenon that continues to rise. Recent events of this type, including the media and tragic Nahel case, have established that in 2022, 13 people were killed by the police as part of checks and refusal to comply.