A 16-year-old teenager was "seriously injured" in Bordeaux on the night of Monday to Tuesday by police fire when he wanted to escape a traffic check behind the wheel of a powerful rental car, we learned Tuesday from police sources and close to the investigation.
At around 11:30 p.m., the driver who was driving "at very high speed" in an Audi RS3 registered in Poland, with at least two other occupants, was chased by the police officers of the BST (specialized field brigade) in streets of central Bordeaux when he refused to submit to a police check, according to a source close to the investigation.
A second police crew, from the departmental intervention company, arrived as reinforcements to try to intercept it.
The driver crashed into a police car
In wanting to escape, the driver hit one of the police vehicles and officials "fired", added the source close to the investigation, specifying that "ten bullets were fired".
The driver continued to drive for "a few hundred meters before coming to a stop" on an axis of the Garonne quays, hit by gunfire.
The other passengers fled on foot.
One of them was caught and taken into police custody.
"Seriously injured in the chest", the driver was taken to hospital.
He is known to the police, especially for hit and run offenses and violence, according to the source close to the investigation.
An investigation for "attempted homicide of law enforcement officers" was entrusted by the prosecution to the judicial police of Bordeaux.
The General Inspectorate of the National Police, the "police police", was seized of the facts.
