An injured police officer, a police car hit: a 57-year-old man engaged in a standoff with the police on the roads of the Cergy-Pontoise agglomeration on the night of Thursday to Friday before seeing his race end against a sidewalk in Cergy.
Coming from the Traveler community, the man, slightly injured, was taken to hospital before being placed in police custody at the Cergy police headquarters.
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The affair begins in Pontoise on avenue François-Mitterrand, near the science faculty.
Two vans race on the dual carriageway around one o'clock in the morning.
While the first stops at the red light, the second stops its course a little further on, in the middle of the lane.
A Bac crew who was in the area then approached with the intention of checking the driver of this van.
The police officers get out of the vehicle and come to contact.
This is the moment chosen by the man behind the wheel to restart.
He steers left, passes between two officials, hitting one of them in the process, and flees, accelerating at full speed.
He then takes the A 15 motorway towards Paris.
The driver ends his race against a sidewalk
The police immediately went after him and managed to follow him as the fugitive left the A15 near Éragny.
In the race, he hits one of the police vehicles mobilized to intercept him and gets back on the highway.
He left shortly after to take the RN 184 towards Conflans (Yvelines), before trying to outrun the police in Cergy, in the Avenue du Bois sector.
When he made a U-turn, he hit a police vehicle again and ended up hitting a sidewalk where the driver, slightly injured, was immediately arrested.
The emergency services were alerted and intervened to take care of him, as well as a police officer who was also slightly injured.
A procedure was opened during the night for refusal to comply and violence with weapons by destination against persons holding public authority.