He was sentenced on Tuesday to a four-and-a-half-year prison term by the Rennes court. Three months after his arrest by the RAID in a hotel in Loire-Atlantique where he had taken refuge, a 28-year-old man was found guilty of violence, damage to property and aggravated refusal to comply, after having rushed towards BAC police, reports the newspaper West France.
On the day of the incident, the man was driving his Audi, Chantepie district in Rennes, when he hit a first police car in front of him. Wanting to flee control, he drove in reverse on the one behind, before fleeing while trying to hit a policeman who had his weapon in his hand. An officer had to jump into his vehicle altogether to escape the accident, seeing his door be bent by the impact. The public prosecutor Philippe Astruc then praised “the exceptional composure of the police”.
The defendant, whose criminal record already has 17 entries, denied the facts during the hearing. He was kept in detention.