Another refusal to comply. During the night from Friday to Saturday, during a road check on the sidelines of the Carcassonne feria, an alcoholic motorist under the influence of narcotics “deliberately” hit a 48-year-old policeman, seriously injuring him.
While police officers were carrying out alcohol checks on a road between Limoux and Carcassonne, a motorist first slowed down and then accelerated, violently hitting this police officer, according to a police source.
An investigation has been opened into the facts of “attempted murder of a person holding public authority”, “driving while intoxicated and under the influence of narcotics”, indicated for his part to AFP the the Carcassonne prosecutor’s office, which “is waiting to have information on the evolution of the injured policeman’s state of health”.
90 days of ITT
According to Bruno Bartoccetti, national secretary for the southern zone of the SGP police – FO union, on his X account (ex-Twitter), the policeman was hit “deliberately” and “suffers from multiple fractures”, another police source evoking “at the minus a broken pelvis”, after the police officer hit the hood and then the windshield of the vehicle. According to the Independent, the policeman was urgently hospitalized at the Carcassonne hospital center. 90 days of ITT were prescribed to him, given the seriousness of his injuries.
The 28-year-old driver from Carcassonne fled but was arrested shortly after, with his passenger, the two men then being taken into custody, according to police sources.