A chase almost turned tragic overnight from Monday to Tuesday in La Courneuve. A 15-year-old boy, who was driving a car, was taken to hospital with a life-threatening condition. A bullet had just hit him in the back of the skull. He is now out of danger on Tuesday.
The police who were chasing him fired while the motorist refused to comply. One of the civil servants, whose motorbike was hit and ended up against a tree, was seriously injured in the chest. He would have cracked ribs, we learned from a police source.
An investigation into the use of the firearm by the police officer was opened by the Bobigny prosecution and entrusted to the IGPN, the General Inspectorate of the National Police, specifies AFP. A classic procedure in such circumstances. The teenager is the subject of an investigation for “attempted intentional homicide on a person holding public authority”.
It all started around 12:40 a.m. A resident of Stains makes a phone call to 17, Police rescue. According to him, a young driver, apparently drunk, hit a dozen parked vehicles and nearly knocked over a passerby.
A first crew sets off in pursuit of the driver, who refuses to stop despite the injunctions issued by the police. Bikers arrive as reinforcements. The chase ends rue Jean-Jaurès in La Courneuve. Under circumstances yet to be determined, officials fired once at the vehicle as it sped towards them.
The teenager was seriously injured. Because of his condition, he could not be heard by the Sûreté, the service in charge of the investigation. It turns out that he is a minor on the run from a home in Beauvais (Oise).
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