The individual suspected of having voluntarily mowed down a gendarme, Wednesday in Pugnac, at a place called Saint-Urbain, (Gironde) “admitted having hit the gendarme but denies any homicidal intention” indicates this Friday the parquet floor of Bordeaux.
“It is established that he did not have a driving license and that he was not insured for this vehicle, continues the public prosecutor, Frédérique Porterie, in a press release. Toxicological analyzes confirm that he had consumed cannabis on the day of the incident. The person concerned has also already been sentenced by the Bordeaux Criminal Court in March 2021 for driving a vehicle without a license.
“Injuries that could lead to serious consequences”
On Wednesday around 6:15 p.m., during a traffic control operation carried out by soldiers from the Saint-Aubin motorized platoon at Saint Urbain, “a BMW vehicle refusing to comply with control gestures accelerated and hit a gendarme”, indicates the wooden floor. “The latter was thrown fifteen meters and was quickly helicoptered” to the CHU de Pellegrin in Bordeaux. If the vital prognosis of the victim gendarme is not, at this time, not engaged, “the serious injuries from which he suffers could lead, in the opinion of the doctors, to very serious after-effects” specifies the prosecutor.
The vehicle was found an hour later not far from the scene, without an occupant. The Libourne public prosecutor’s office then opened an investigation in the act of attempted homicide on a soldier of the national gendarmerie and seized the research section of the Gironde.
Thursday, the driver reported to the gendarmerie of Saint-André-de-Cubzac in the middle of the morning where he was placed in police custody. The investigations, now entrusted to the criminal division of the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office, are continuing. “The police custody has been extended and an opening of information is envisaged on Saturday morning”, announces the public prosecutor.