Thursday, June 27, 2024 was the scene of a car chase on the RN88, which had a dramatic outcome, in Tarn.
A chase with a dramatic outcome. While the gendarmes were chasing a fugitive who had refused to obey on the RN88, Thursday June 27, 2024, the individual was found dead in his vehicle.
Between Albi and Rodez
France 3 reports that a motorist driving a van refused to comply at Garric, at the exit of Albi. Before fleeing, the driver hit the gendarmerie vehicle, according to our colleagues. The chase also involving gendarmerie bikers lasted several kilometers on the RN88towards Rodez.
A shot
The individual, driving a van, however, had nothing to reproach himself for since, as - Occitanie reveals by quoting the public prosecutor of Albi, Stéphanie Bazart, it was a classic roadside check : the driver had no not committed an offense.
Our colleagues add that the fugitive stopped its route at PampelonneIt was when they stopped at his level that the police heard a gunshot: the man they were chasing. had just committed suicide at the wheel of his vehicle. France 3 specifies that the weapon used was a 12-gauge shotgun.
According to La Dépêche du Midi, more than one thirty policemen were mobilized for this intervention, which caused a traffic interruption in the sector, during this Thursday.
Last hectic days
Aged around fifty, this man was far from being unknown to the police services : the magistrate revealed to our colleagues that he had already been arrested a few days earlier. This former soldier had turned the village upside down from Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur (Tarn) in great tension.
La Dépêche du Midi had in fact said that on June 22, the man sent text messages to his partner, in which he allegedly made suicidal comments. She notified the firefighters. Who, when they presented themselves at the family home, were received with a rifle. It was finally on the morning of June 24 that the madman had been arrested.
- Occitanie finally mentions that following his custody, the fifty-year-old was released. Before this chase and this tragic outcomethis Thursday, June 27, 2024.
