Seventeen shots were fired to stop a vehicle rushing at them. Two police officers from CRS 36, in a support detachment in Bordeaux, fired eleven and six times respectively, Saturday evening around midnight, in the direction of a motorist who was rushing at them.
At around 11:40 p.m., four personnel from CRS 36 carried out a foot patrol on Cours Victor-Hugo, around rue Saint-François and rue du Mirail. “They are alerted by the noise of a vehicle approaching at high speed, but which is blocked by a car in front of it, indicates the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office to 20 minutes. The police approach the driver for verification, and the driver immediately engages reverse gear and spins off. “
“He rushes at the police with great determination”
The four police officers on foot run after him. “He then performs a maneuver at the height of the rue Saint-François, and rushes at the police with great determination” according to the first elements of the investigation.
“Cornered, two of the four police officers take out their service weapons and open fire on the vehicle” continues the prosecution. Seventeen impacts are found, “which corresponds to the first statements of the police. »The vehicle ends its race in a tree, near the Richelieu platform. “The injured individual goes out to hide behind reeds, where he is quickly arrested” by the police.
The individual affected at the level of the neck
This man was not the only occupant of the car but their number could not be determined. The suspect, a 19-year-old young man, “very unfavorably known to the police,” sources close to the investigation said, was taken into police custody. “However, it had to be lifted given his neck injury,” said the prosecution. The individual was taken to hospital on Sunday for surgery to remove the projectile that hit him. His vital prognosis would not be engaged.
The Alternative Police union denounces this “attempted homicide of a person holding public authority”, “gives all its support to the colleagues who intervened”, and “salutes the professionalism and the coolness of our CRS colleagues who have employed the means in their possession to save their lives. “