His detention is about to be lifted. The driver suspected of carrying out a fatal attack on a gendarme in Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, on the evening of Monday, August 26, 2024, will be referred for “murder of a person holding public authority”, indicated the Grasse prosecutor this Wednesday, August 28. A press release issued by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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Request for pre-trial detention
The prosecution will request that the suspect be held in pre-trial detention, which “confirms” not to see the gendarme on the street and not to be near him “Unintentionally hit and left the scene in panic”the prosecutor said in a press release.
According to the Grasse public prosecutor’s office on Tuesday, the 39-year-old suspect had ten convictions on his criminal record. “Road traffic violations” But “Attacks on people”.After his arrest in Cannes, on the night of Monday to Tuesday, the driver tested positive for alcohol.
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An average of 25,000 people per year refuse to comply
According to Gérald Darmanin on Tuesday morning, an average of 25,000 people per year refuse to comply. “There were injuries, by 2021 it was 27,000-28,000, even though it has declined slightly in the last three years, between 20,000 and 23,000” At “5,000 directly affecting police officers, gendarmes or citizens at nearby pedestrian crossings”The minister said.
Nearly one in five refusals to comply are a crime “Excited”That is to say, it exposes “directly places other people at risk of death or disability”The Ministerial Statistical Service for Internal Security (SSMSI) specified in April that a record number of 13 deaths were registered in 2022 following refusal to comply during road checks. Almost all the victims were drivers or passengers of the vehicles involved.