A vehicle of the gendarmerie motorized platoon.
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National Gendarmerie
Two men who were fleeing a gendarmerie check died overnight from Wednesday to Thursday in a traffic accident on the RN 20, learns
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from a source close to the case.
The facts occurred around 2:30 am in the Essonne.
A patrol of the Psig (gendarmerie surveillance and intervention platoon), which was crossing a police zone, attempted to control the driver of a car which passed it at high speed.
Beacons on, the soldiers follow the vehicle, which comes out of the 2x2 lanes.
At a roundabout, the driver makes a U-turn and takes the expressway in the opposite direction.
The gendarmes follow him by committing in the right direction of circulation.
Quickly, they lose sight of him.
A kilometer further on, they find the vehicle which had struck a heavy vehicle head-on.
Its two occupants, who have not yet been identified, died at the scene.
The truck driver is unharmed but shocked.
An investigation was opened, entrusted to the Etampes police station.
According to our information, the vehicle of the two victims could have been stolen.
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