Bordeaux: a vehicle rushes on police officers who retaliate, a man wounded by gunshot – franceinfo

Police officers on foot patrol used their weapons on a car that “dark” on them after an attempted control, Saturday 23 October in the evening, in Bordeaux. An occupant of the vehicle was shot in the neck, the prosecutor told AFP. He could not be taken into custody due to his state of health.

Four CRS were patrolling on foot Saturday shortly before midnight in the Saint-Michel district in the city center, when they approached a vehicle stationary on the roadway to carry out a check. According to the prosecution, the car then turned around quickly and “deliberately dark” towards the agents. Two of them, “cornered”, opened fire on the vehicle which stopped “a few tens of meters further”.

The police men, “shocked”, were not injured, says the prosecution. After an increase in delinquency in Saint-Michel in 2020, a local group for the treatment of delinquency (GLTD) – associating the prefecture, police, prosecutor’s office, town hall and local associations – had been set up at the beginning of the year in this regard. popular district of the center. It has just been closed by the authorities, who have argued a decrease in attacks on people and property.