He had run over a policewoman while trying to flee.

A motorist was sentenced on Monday by the Lille Criminal Court to four years in prison, one of which was suspended, for having injured a police officer, after refusing to comply.

This 27-year-old driver was tried in immediate appearance.

On February 4, at 6:50 a.m., the police wanted to check the defendant while he was driving with the lights out and his passenger was consuming nitrous oxide in Hellemmes, a district of Lille, reported the president of the court.

Already sentenced five times

However, this father of three children and manager of a “catering trade”, “did not want to stop”.

A chase then began for about ten minutes in the streets of Lille until he entered a dead end.

Forced to stop, the motorist, already convicted five times including "driving under the influence of an alcoholic state", then tried to flee by reversing.

He hit the policewoman who got out of the vehicle, resulting in total incapacity for work for more than a month, due in particular to a fractured pelvis.

“I met the driver's gaze in the interior mirror, I said to myself” he saw me “, then I felt his first wheel pass over me”, testified the policewoman at the helm.


“I rolled a few times under the vehicle, I heard it go into forward gear, it ran over me, I felt my bones crack.

I was paralyzed, I saw myself dying, ”she continued.

“I thought I was driving on the curb”

The driver and his passenger were finally arrested after the use of his weapon by another police officer.

The 16-year-old passenger was not charged.

At the helm, the defendant, in detention since the events, assured that he had "not seen the policewoman".

“I thought I was rolling over the curb, I didn't want to run over it, I'm not crazy to do that…”, he defended himself.

“I am aware that what I have done is serious, but I had no intention of doing so.

I apologize, I'm sorry,” he insisted before the court retired to deliberate.

And condemn him.

Miscellaneous facts

In Montpellier, the driver suspected of having hit a policeman was arrested

Justice

Suspended prison sentence for the trader who shot a policeman who was mistaken for a thief

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