The police student who mowed five people by car near Lille prosecuted for “involuntary injuries”

At the end of his police custody, the police student was presented on Saturday to justice and placed under judicial supervision, after having injured five people in front of a Wasquehal bar on Thursday.

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A police car in Nœux-les-Mines (Pas-de-Calais), December 12, 2024 (illustration photo). (Ludovic Maillard / Maxppp)

The police student who rushed Thursday evening by car in front of a bar in Wasquehal, on the outskirts of Lille, making five injured before being arrested, will be tried on March 4 for acts of “involuntary injuries”, said on Saturday, February 15 The prosecution. “He is accused of acts of involuntary injury with ITT (temporary work interruption) less than three months by driver under the empire of an alcoholic state and lack of control” of a vehicle, explained the Lille prosecutor, Carole Etienne, in a declaration sent to AFP.

Thursday evening at 11:50 p.m., the driver, a student at the National Roubaix-Hem police school, “Striked and injured five people on the terrace” From an establishment in Wasquehal, the High Bar, recalled the prosecutor. “The hearings of witnesses and staff of the establishment seem to exclude any difficulty or altercation with a client of the establishment, whether inside or outside the latter”underlined the magistrate.

At the end of his police custody, he was presented on Saturday to justice “for a delayed time appearance pending the results of toxicological analyzes”said the prosecutor. Pending appearing on March 4 before the Lille court, “It was placed under a strict judicial control with in particular the prohibition to drive any engine vehicle and to appear at the police school”. In a statement sent to AFP on Friday, the Directorate General of the National Police (DGPN) sentenced “Firmly behavior outside the students of the Roubaix police school” and addressed “His thoughts” to victims “Wounded or shocked”.

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