The series continues.
Val-d'Oise has just experienced a new refusal to comply, the consequences of which could have been dramatic.
It was around 4 a.m. on the night of Friday to Saturday when the gendarmerie wanted to check a car traveling on the D 14, an axis crossing the department from Seine-Saint-Denis to Vexin and Saint-Clair-sur- Epte.
The driver doesn't see it that way and accelerates, forcing the soldiers to chase after him.
They will soon discover that this 21-year-old man, resident in Essonne, does not hold a driving license and is banned by the courts from appearing in Val-d'Oise.
Near the small rural town of Perchay, the offender finally lost control of the vehicle which, damaged, quickly burst into flames.
Faced with the risk of explosion, the latter must be extracted from the carcass by the police before the arrival of the firefighters.
Transported by emergency services to the hospital for examination, he was then placed in police custody with the approval of the Pontoise public prosecutor's office. He was still there this Saturday noon.
This case comes less than three days after another particularly violent refusal to comply, this time in the agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise.
A 57-year-old man ended up being arrested by the police after a chase during which he crashed into several law enforcement vehicles and injured an official.
In recent years, “refusals to comply”, as the magistrates say, have become more and more numerous.
The Ministry of the Interior recorded 25,822 cases last year in France, or one every twenty minutes.