The gendarmerie helicopter circled for a long time above the Port-Sainte-Foy-et-Ponchapt cemetery on Thursday, October 31, under the gaze of residents who came to decorate the graves with flowers for All Saints' Day. The epilogue of a long chase between a stolen Opel Corsa and the municipal police of Sainte-Foy-la-Grandethe neighboring town of Gironde, on the other side of the river. As revealed South Westthe fleeing driver was still being sought by numerous gendarmes in the evening.
It all started at the beginning of the afternoon, in the streets of Sainte-Foy-la-Grande. The municipal police patrol stops to intervene in a collision between two cars. But the driver of the Opel Corsa flees, with the municipal authorities on his heels. The municipal authorities warn the gendarmerie, who pass the plate into the file: the car is declared stolen in Bergerac.
The police helicopter finds the car
The fugitive crosses the Dordogne and goes due north, to Fougueyrolles, then Saint-Méard-de-Gurçon. He even ends up being crushed and hit by the municipal police T-Roc behind him, but managed to escape. It is the gendarmerie helicopter, triggered in an emergency, which will find the Opel Corsa while turning in the area: it is parked near the Port-Sainte-Foy cemetery, empty.
The suspect was still on the run Thursday evening. A police tracking dog was on site to try to find his trace.
