2023-09-02 15:07:00
An investigation was opened for “attempted murder of a person holding public authority” and “drunk driving”.
By JB with AFP The incident took place on the sidelines of the Carcassonne feria, in Aude (illustration). © XOSE BOUZAS / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP Published on 09/02/2023 at 3:07 p.m.
A 48-year-old policeman was injured on the night of Friday September 1 to Saturday September 2 after being hit by a motorist under the influence of alcohol and narcotics on the sidelines of the Carcassonne feria (Aude), according to sources police and judiciary. While the police were carrying out alcohol checks on a road between Limoux and Carcassonne where a feria is taking place, a motorist slowed down then accelerated, violently hitting an official, according to a police source.
An investigation has been opened into the facts of “attempted murder of a person holding public authority”, “drunk driving and under the influence of narcotics”, indicated for his part to Agence France -Press the Carcassonne prosecutor’s office, which “is waiting to have information on the evolution of the injured policeman’s state of health”.
The victim “suffers from multiple fractures”
According to Bruno Bartoccetti, national secretary for the southern zone of the SGP police-FO union, on his X account (formerly Twitter), the policeman was hit “deliberately” and “suffers from multiple fractures”, another police source mentions “at least a broken pelvis”, after the policeman hit the hood and then the windshield of the vehicle. 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.
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