Friday, November 8, in the early evening, a tragedy played out in the town of Eaunes, near Ariège. A driver, while trying to overtake another vehicle, collided head-on with a scooter coming in front of him. Riding this two-wheeler, a 16-year-old teenager. Despite first aid provided by a witness to the accident, then by the Muret firefighters and a SAMU 31 team, the young man did not survive his injuries. The author of the accident vanished. Very quickly, the gendarmes of the Muret company, territorial brigade and motorized brigade, based on a few elements, set out to look for the author of the hit-and-run. An alert was given to the Ariège gendarmerie operational center with details of the fleeing vehicle. Around 1:30 a.m., the fugitive was reported in the town of Fossat, he was traveling on foot, after his vehicle was spotted in the village. He was immediately arrested by the Ariège and Hauts-Garonnais gendarmes and taken to the Muret gendarmerie brigade where he was placed in police custody. He will have to explain his actions and his hit-and-run. According to some sources, he was driving under the influence of drugs. A few grams of cocaine were found in his vehicle following a search.
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