Le Figaro Bordeaux
The lingering interview quickly degenerated.
Two drivers started by shouting at each other on the road to Cenon, near Bordeaux, on Friday.
One having made a tail at the other, honking and insults were heard.
A case which could have ended with mutual incivility if the two drivers had not decided to follow each other to confront each other in a parking lot in the neighboring town, Cours de la Libération in Lormont.
Feet on the ground, the two thirty-somethings came to blows, until one of them ended up drawing a knife.
Panicked, his opponent fled towards his car, turned on the ignition, hit his rival's vehicle, then ran over his leg.
Desperate and uncontrolled gesture in a moment of panic or voluntary violence?
An investigation, opened by the Bordeaux national police, must determine this.
Immobilized in his car
Immobilized in his vehicle by customers of the restaurant in the parking lot where the brawl took place, the driver was arrested by the internal security forces while his opponent was evacuated towards the 4 Pavillons clinic, injured but alive.
Referred to the Bordeaux public prosecutor's office at the end of his police custody, the other belligerent emerged free with a subsequent summons to appear in court.