He declared during his police custody that he wanted to “go into people” indicates the parquet floor of Bordeaux. A 38-year-old man was arrested for overturning the wheel of his car a group of twelve cyclists Saturday afternoon in Sadirac. “Four cyclists have been knocked down, two are still hospitalized,” said the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office on Monday. 20 minuteswhich specifies that “the vital prognosis is not engaged but one of the victims would risk, according to the doctors, to remain paraplegic”.
Unknown to justice, “the defendant was the subject of a presentation on Monday before the investigating judge at the end of his police custody, with a view to his indictment on the counts of attempted murder” . The prosecution will take requisitions for referral to the judge of freedoms and detention, “with placement in pre-trial detention”.
The motorist remained on the spot, “surprisingly calm”
The four mowed cyclists are between 60 and 70 years old. Members of Artigues Cyclo Sport, they were traveling “in single file” on the side of the road when they were hit. “They didn’t hear a brake, just a huge bang,” club president Dominique Paris told AFP. The bikes and the guys were on the ground and the windshield was shattered,” he continued.
According to him, the motorist remained on the spot, “surprisingly calm” and “hands in his pockets”, before being arrested by the gendarmerie. According South West, the suspect is said to be unemployed but presents himself as a “senior civil servant”, “victim of harassment” and “lives with his parents, most of the time reclusive in his room. A psychiatric expertise of the individual was requested.