The shock is terrible. Launched at high speed, a white car hits a RATP bus on the side. This takes place at the corner of the N3 and rue du Parc in Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis), on the night of Saturday April 23 to Sunday April 24, around 1:30 a.m. Under the force of the impact, the vehicle, a Kia Picanto, veered to the right and came to a stop. The hood is reduced to mush. The bust of the 37-year-old driver was found in a strange position, completely leaning over one of the two doors.
It is dark and the scene has just been filmed by the camera of a motorcyclist from the DOPC, the direction of public order and traffic of Seine-Saint-Denis. A few minutes earlier, the police officer chased, with another colleague on a motorcycle, this small white car. It is reported stolen. Falsely plated in France, it was stolen in Belgium.
A chase ensues. The camera of one of the agents is activated. The hunt is filmed from start to finish. A bit like in a video game, we are installed at the handlebars of the powerful motorcycle which borrows a maze of narrow streets in a residential area. Except that we are in raw reality.
The driver of the two-wheeler negotiates the many hairpin bends. The streets are deserted, the stops and the red lights are grilled by the driver. The roar of the engine covers the words of the motorcyclist. We hear that he announces on the airwaves that the fugitive is heading for the road to Paris, the N3, in the town of Noisy-le-Sec.
The bus carried no passengers
In a long straight line, rue du Parc, the Kia is closely pursued by the two motorcycles. It is approaching the intersection with the N3. It was then that a RATP bus on line 147, which goes to the depot, appeared. He was coming from the Pantin church and had the Bondy bridge in sight. Launched at very high speed, the car cannot avoid it and collides head-on with the bus in its center.
At this late hour of the night, it no longer carries passengers. The driver, alone on board, is doing without too much trouble. “He suffers from minor injuries”, indicates the RATP.
The same is not true of the driver of the Kia. The front of the car is just a heap of sheet metal. The man, whose body is half out of the cockpit, is very seriously affected. So much so that his vital prognosis is engaged at first. His health then stabilized. From now on, his life is no longer in danger, but he remains polytraumatized.
The images that were posted on Twitter were not intended to be brought to the attention of the public. “It is unlikely that its owner took the initiative,” said a policeman. It had to be shared. Crucial proof, the video has been added to the file. The policeman would have been equipped with “a personal camera, GoPro style”, according to one of his colleagues.
“The camera shows that it is the motorist who takes all the risks”
At a time when police interventions are regularly filmed by the opposing party, “some police officers decide to buy them with their personal funds to accurately report the facts, indicates one of them. We see exactly what is happening. At the time when one questions the word of the civil servants, it makes it possible to see that it is the motorist who takes all the risks. He refuses to comply, he runs through stop signs and red lights. »
Between the lines of these facts resurfaces the eternal question posed to the police officers of Seine-Saint-Denis: during a refusal to comply, the police would be prohibited from “taking charge” of two-wheelers and cars. , in order to avoid accidents. The subject is unclear.
In 2020, at the Bobigny police station, during the visit of Laurent Nunez, at the time Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior, police officials had put the subject on the table. “As soon as we report by radio to the information and command center that we are on a vehicle, we receive the order to let it go,” said a police officer from the anti-crime brigade.
A reflection had to be carried out to specify the cases where the police could free themselves from this instruction. Today, the police hierarchy refutes this ban which would end up completely paralyzing the action of the police. “The care follows a field analysis. The CIC can interrupt it when it deems there are risks. In the case of Noisy-le-Sec, they are perfectly in control of operations”
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