On December 29, 2024, a driver refused to comply with a police check at the Boulou toll booth in the Pyrénées-Orientales. The man managed to escape by dragging an officer for several meters and taking the A9 motorway in the wrong direction.
A particularly violent refusal to comply. In the Pyrénées-Orientales on Sunday, a man fled during a border police check at the Boulou toll, report our colleagues at l’Indépendant.
A police officer dragged for several meters
According to our colleagues, the incident occurred shortly after midnight. The driver arrived at high speed at the toll booth. He was coming from Spain. The border police asked him to stop at the barrier for a check, but the individual refused.
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He started up again while one of the officers was hanging on to the car, dragging him for several meters,reports the departmental branch of the Alliance police union. The officer finally let go, and the man continued on his way at high speed.
Wrong-way driving on the A9
A large force was immediately deployed to arrest the reckless driver. Reinforcements were deployed at the south toll booth, the exit taken by the individual. But when he saw the reinforcements, he turned around and fled in the opposite direction, still on the motorway.
He drove for about fifteen kilometres, without causing any injuries, before stopping at the Rivesaltes rest area. The police caught up with the car and managed to intercept two individuals in the vehicle. One of them is said to have bitten an officer.
The driver, meanwhile, had already fled. The union adds that the two police officers who were dragged away received two days of ITT. It was not a refusal to comply linked to serious crime or drug trafficking.