A police car in intervention (illustration). - Clément Follain / 20 Minutes

The police opened fire on a car which was driving them. The facts occurred in the industrial area of ​​Ludres near Nancy, Wednesday evening reports  the Est Républicain . Police from the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) responded when an alarm was raised in the Logista tobacco store. Depot which supplies the tobacconists of the Great East and which was already the subject of a robbery missed by an armed commando a week ago. It was then that a “suspicious” vehicle drove towards them while they were out of their car. The police were forced to shoot "at least once", said our colleagues. But the driver fled.

A hectic chase on the A33 to Nancy started, during which a police car and that of the fugitive collided. The individual was finally stopped on the highway at Fléville-devant-Nancy and placed in police custody.

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