The driver who killed Warrant Officer Eric Comyn on Monday after refusing to be stopped in the commune of Mougins is due to be brought before the court later today. The prosecution will also request that he be placed in pre-trial detention.
The reckless driver who hit and fatally injured a police officer on Monday evening during a traffic stop will be brought before a court this Wednesday, August 28, for “murder of a person in a position of public authority”announced the public prosecutor of Grasse. The prosecution will request the provisional detention of the suspect, who “claims not to have seen the policeman on the road”the prosecutor said in a statement.
The suspect said he had it “hit unintentionally and, in a panic, left the scene” of the tragedy, a slip road of the A8 motorway in the commune of Mougins. A psychiatric examination was carried out during his police custody and “the expert concludes, at this stage, that he bears full criminal responsibility”he further stressed. On Tuesday, the Grasse prosecutor’s office indicated that the suspect, aged 39, had ten convictions on his criminal record for “traffic violations” but also “attacks on people”After his arrest in Cannes, on the night of Monday to Tuesday, the reckless driver tested positive for alcohol.
“France killed my husband” by his “excess of tolerance”had accused earlier Tuesday the widow of the slain gendarme, during a ceremony in tribute to her husband in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, the town where the motorized platoon to which he belonged was based.
On X (ex-Twitter), Emmanuel Macron also paid tribute to the policeman. “I share the deep sorrow of his family and his comrades in the Mandelieu-la-Napoule motorway squad, he wrote. The Nation stands by their side and expresses its gratitude to the gendarmes who protect it.”
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