It's not every day that a sub-prefect is on a traffic stop.
That of Moselle, Jacqueline Mercury-Giorgetti, was slightly injured along with a police officer, during a refusal to comply, while she accompanied a patrol of the specialized field brigade on Friday in Metz (Moselle), a- we learned on Saturday from the prefecture.
The Moselle prefecture confirmed the incident reported by Europe 1. The sub-prefect, who recently took office, “is doing well,” she said.
“It was an immersion in a classic setting with the police and gendarmerie services, as do all the sub-prefects who arrive on duty,” explained the prefecture.
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The incident took place Friday evening when three BST police officers, accompanied by the sub-prefect, spotted “a vehicle which had been stolen the same morning”, assured David Ghisleri, departmental secretary of the Alliance union.
The police “stand in the way of the vehicle and decide to arrest its driver” but he “rushes into the police car as well as the official who had already put his foot down, thrown due to the impact more than 4 m,” he said.
The taser used
Vehicles from the BAC, emergency police and the canine brigade came as reinforcements to try to intercept the vehicle which ended up stopping after having its tires punctured by a motor vehicle interception device, placed on the roadway, explained the trade unionist.
According to David Ghisleri, the suspect was finally arrested by the BAC police officers who “had to use their electric pulse gun”.
“The police officer suffered from muscular injuries and skin abrasions,” he reported and the sub-prefect, who had “remained in the vehicle, was injured by hitting the front seat, she had trauma to the level cervicals”.