This policeman was controlling the Boulou toll (Pyrénées-Orientales) in October 2020, when he was knocked down by a motorist who refused to comply. This police officer was seriously injured. He testifies today at the microphone of CNEWS.
This happened during a road check around 4 am at the Boulou tollbooth. Noting that a driver was driving visibly in a state of intoxication, the police officers signaled him to stop. But the latter then refused to obey orders and went straight for an agent.
“I think he was between 70km/h or 80km/h, he lifted me three meters in the air and I ended up 10m behind the car,” he recalls. The policeman suffered from a broken pelvis but also from a head trauma, forcing him to remain hospitalized for three months. After being stopped for two years, today Ibrahim was able to resume service.
Quickly arrested, his attacker was sentenced to five years in prison, including three years. A sentence that the police officer considers insufficient. For him, it is not a simple aggravated refusal to comply but “an attempted voluntary homicide”.