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Eric Comyn, 54, was killed by a hit-and-run driver while refusing to comply near Cannes on Monday evening, August 26. Illustrative image.
MISCELLANEOUS – He denies having deliberately hit his victim. Less than two days after being arrested, the man arrested after refusing to comply which cost the life of a police officer in Mougins on August 26 has been indicted, in particular for “murder of a person in authority”this Wednesday, August 28. As requested by the prosecution, he was placed in pre-trial detention.
During his police custody, the suspect, “a Cape Verdean in a regular situation” in France, holder of a valid driving license, according to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, assured investigators “not having seen the policeman on the road”, the prosecutor said in a statement.
The man claims to have ” hit unintentionally” Eric Comyn, who has been in the gendarmerie for over 30 years, on a slip road of the A8 motorway, and ” panicked, left the premises.” According to the suspect’s psychiatric examination during his police custody, the latter has ” his full criminal responsibility”, and can therefore be judged.
Previous convictions
The 39-year-old suspect already has ten convictions on his criminal record according to the Grasse prosecutor’s office, for “traffic violations” but also “attacks on people”After his arrest in Cannes, on the night of Monday 26 to Tuesday 27 August, the reckless driver tested positive for alcohol, the authorities also specified.
During her husband’s funeral in the commune of Mandelieu-la-Napoule, this Wednesday morning, Harmonie Comyn had virulent words against the French State: “France killed my husband” by his “excess of tolerance”she said, indignant at the excessive “laxity” of French justice. The victim’s wife did not hesitate to question the abolition of the death penalty, assuring that her family had “sentenced for life” with the death of Eric Comyn.
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