A policewoman. (illustration) – SYSPEO / SIPA
A young man was seriously wounded by bullets on Friday evening, in a sensitive city of Montpellier , after he would have tried to ‘escape a police check and failed to run over several agents, we learned from a police source. After the events, which took place towards 20 hours, at the entrance of the sensitive city of Petit-Bard, the young man was transferred to the CHU Lapeyronnie in Montpellier. His life-threatening prognosis would no longer be engaged, it was assured on the side of the departmental direction of public security (DDSP) of
l’Hérault , by confirming initial information from the regional daily Free Midi .
The shootings took place during a curfew control operation set up at the entrance to the city of Petit -Bard, an operation led by a CRS company from Carcassonne. Towards 21 hours, the young man, in a vehicle, would have first bypassed the first police screening set up at the entrance to the neighborhood, failing to run over a first agent. He would have continued without stopping towards the chicane set up by the CRS some sixty meters further, with two of their vehicles.
Self-defense
It is when the young man wanted to cross this obstacle that he found himself facing two other policemen, also on foot, who managed to dodge him: “They fired at the vehicle which was driving towards them, they were in self-defense”, he said. affirmed the representative of the DDSP. The injured driver was stopped just a few meters away while he was trying to get out of his car.
Still from a police source, the CRS were said to have been thrown by stones at 10 hours, already at the entrance to this city of Petit-Bard. It was following these first events that it was decided to put in place a more complete device to control the application of the curfew in the neighborhood, from 20 hours. However, no member of the security forces was injured, either during these stone throwing or when this driver tried to force the police roadblock.