The individual 26-year-old has already been the object of convictions in the past.
The driver causing the death of a police officer during a control at le Mans on Thursday has been charged and placed in preventive detention, announced on Friday evening the public prosecutor.
“The question comes to be put in the examination of the heads of voluntary violence causing death without intention to give it on person agent of the Public Authority and CEA (Driving under the influence of alcohol) in recidivism,” said in a press release Delphine Dewailly, prosecutor of le Mans. “He was placed under warrant of committal criminal”, added the magistrate.
Two sentences
at the Age of 43 years and father of three children, the police officer has died after being struck by a vehicle whose driver was attempting to flee. The accident occurred Thursday at 3 hours and 40 minutes.
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In custody since the facts, the driver, 26-year-old, “has already been the subject of two convictions, including one for the crime of driving under the influence of alcohol and refusal to comply with a summons to stop, committed in 2015”, were recalled Thursday, the prosecutor of le Mans.
