In less time than it takes to tell, the officials opened the doors and forced the five individuals seated inside the two sedans to get out. Some were tackled to the ground before being handcuffed by the police. “Everything happened very quickly, testifies Maxime, a neighbor of the service station. The police vehicles arrived grouped like a swarm of bees. The police came out to ask me to take shelter. I barely had time to see hooded men getting out of vehicles and others belly to ground, before returning home. I didn’t have time to be afraid. »
Almost immediately, the road was cut off to traffic by the gendarmes of Terrasson-Lavilledieu and Montignac-Lascaux, who came to reinforce the police forces. “The motorists were diverted by the gendarmerie forces to other axes”, reports a municipal councilor who had to improvise a detour to return home.
Around 6 p.m., when traffic was about to resume under the control of the constabulary, two tow trucks boarded the black Audi and the blue Mégane, probably seized by the judicial police.
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Was the operation aimed at go-fast drug traffickers? Supposedly dangerous individuals? According to our information, the judicial police forces chased the individuals on board the two vehicles on the basis of information suggesting that they were going to “commit a bad trick”, suggests a source familiar with the matter.
The investigators, from the Toulouse region, followed the individuals arrested in unmarked cars.
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