Painful awakening… After 40 days in a coma, a man who had hit a policeman while trying to flee a police check at the end of June in Carcassonne (Aude) was indicted on Tuesday for attempted homicide, we learned this Friday.
On June 23, the driver of forty years had engaged in a chase in the narrow streets of the center of Carcassonne.
He had slightly injured a policeman.
The driver had been seriously hit by a gun.
After 40 days in a coma, he was presented to the prosecution on Tuesday in his wheelchair, on oxygen, reports his lawyer Franck Alberti.
Indicted for "attempted murder of a person holding public authority", this man was placed under judicial control.
A family complaint
Again hospitalized at the CHU de Purpan, in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), due to an unexplained high fever, he could not be heard on the facts because of his condition.
The prosecution, which had requested his placement in pre-trial detention, appealed.
His family had filed a complaint with the Carcassonne prosecutor's office for intentional assault and battery.
Based on a video of the arrest shot by a local resident, she claimed at the end of June that he had been shot when he had already left his vehicle.
The Marseille IGPN was then seized of the head of "willful violence with a weapon by persons holding public authority".