Le Figaro Nice
The man who deliberately rushed into a police officer to try to escape a check last Tuesday in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), was under the influence of cocaine at the time of the events, analyzes revealed.
He was placed in pre-trial detention pending his trial scheduled for April 12, indicates the Nice court.
The suspect and his counsel requested and received time to prepare their defense.
He will appear for "violence against a national police officer with a weapon by destination", "refusal to comply aggravated by endangering others", "carrying a bladed weapon", and finally "driving after having used narcotics”.
The police were looking for this 45-year-old individual as part of an investigation “
very unfavorably known to the police”
, we were told, in particular so that he could answer for thefts from the trailer.
Absent from his home, the agents saw him nearby, on Route de Saint-Antoine, in his Toyota Yaris.
The man refused to stop and worse, he hit an officer.
Another police officer used her service weapon and fired six times, hitting the wheels and body of the vehicle.
The driver was therefore unable to continue his escape attempt.
Driver of disabled children
The police officer was slightly injured in the shoulder.
“We haven’t been far from a tragedy
,” assured a police source.
The profile of the suspect is all the more interesting since this forty-year-old, father of a six-year-old boy, works for a company responsible for transporting disabled children, reported
Nice-Matin
.
He has already been convicted 23 times for drug trafficking and theft.
The individual suffers from mood disorders for which he is receiving treatment.
A new psychiatric assessment must be carried out at the request of the defense.
The first carried out in police custody concluded that there was no alteration and abolition of discernment at the time of the events.