The driver of the vehicle in which a 22-year-old woman died on Wednesday during an anti-drug operation in Rennes was imprisoned on Friday, announced the public prosecutor of Rennes. “The driver of the Peugeot was indicted on the counts of drug trafficking (acquisition, possession, transport, offer or sale and importation), criminal association and refusal to hand over his telephone codes and was placed in pre-trial detention. “Said Rennes prosecutor Philippe Astruc in a press release.
Around one o’clock in the morning on Wednesday, a police officer used his weapon “once” against a “Peugeot 208 vehicle”. Its driver, a man born in 1996, was the subject of an interception within the framework of an investigation for “violation of the legislation on narcotics” on a ramp of the Rennes ring road at the intersection of the road of Lorient .
The police officer who fired the shot heard as a witness
A 22-year-old woman, “unknown to the judicial services” and domiciled in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray was also on board. The man, known to the police, had been injured in the arm by a bullet which then hit “the passenger by the left flank”. She died on the spot at 2:15 a.m. despite the intervention of the emergency services. The prosecutor indicated that the mother of the deceased young woman had filed a complaint for manslaughter against the driver of the vehicle.
According to the prosecution, the driver had been summoned by a police officer to get out of the vehicle and stop, after which “he refused to comply and started again quickly”, facing two other police vehicles. The driver of one of the two vehicles, saying he felt his life was in danger, had pulled towards the car from the driver’s side after getting out of the vehicle which had just hit his leg. “The police officer who fired the shot was immediately heard as a witness by the IGPN (he may be heard again if necessary in a different legal framework)”, indicated the prosecution. 111 grams of cocaine were found on the edge of the ramp and “would have been launched according to one of the police officers through the front passenger window of the Peugeot vehicle”, added the prosecutor.