2023-05-24 08:24:23
Emmanuel Macron will visit Thursday alongside the families and colleagues of the three police officers who died in Roubaix on Sunday in a car accident. The President of the Republic will pay homage to them at the national police school in this northern city.
“This accident took place during a rescue intervention for victims, which illustrates the heart of the mission incumbent on them. An everyday mission where the police intervene to protect the French, ”explains the Élysée.
The three young policemen were killed in a Sunday collision in the North were hit by a vehicle in the wrong direction, speeding and whose driver was heavily alcoholic and drugged, according to the investigation elements revealed Monday by the prosecutor of Lille.
The driver in question, killed in the shock, has a blood alcohol level of 2.08 g / l and he is also positive for cannabis.
This man, aged 24, and his passenger, 23 and seriously injured, were unfavorably known to the police for consumption of alcohol, use of narcotics and insults.
A seriously injured girl
“The first elements of the investigation confirm the hypothesis of a frontal collision between the two vehicles”, specified Ms. Etienne, the video surveillance and the testimonies making it possible to affirm that the vehicle, an Alfa Romeo, “was engaged against the direction “.
This car’s speedometer stuck just below 120 km/h. The police crew circulated for its part “with a revolving light”. An investigation has been opened for homicides and involuntary injuries.
The collision, very violent and which also seriously injured a young girl sitting in the police vehicle, occurred Sunday around 7:00 a.m., on the RD 700 at the level of Villeneuve-d’Ascq.
The three deceased police officers, two 25-year-old men and a 24-year-old woman, had taken up duty an hour earlier, according to the departmental director of public security (DDSP) in the North, Thierry Courtecuisse.
They transported this 16-year-old girl to the Lille medico-judicial unit “in order to have her examined urgently by a doctor as part of an investigation opened into acts of personal injury which she had denounced to the course of the night,” according to the prosecutor.
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