The motorist, placed in police custody on Tuesday in Rouen (Seine-Maritime) after hitting several cyclists, including one fatally, was indicted on charges of murder, attempted murder, aggravated refusal to obey and damage to the vehicle. property of others, the Rouen prosecutor’s office told Le Parisien this Thursday. She was placed in pre-trial detention.
The driver, in a hit-and-run incident, was arrested in Buchy, around thirty kilometers north of Rouen, and placed in police custody after hitting three cyclists in the city center. The third victim, in a coma, died “in the middle of the day”, according to public prosecutor Sébastien Gallois.
The woman driving the van, born in 1977, was not drunk at the time of her arrest but made “incoherent comments without ideological or religious connotation”. “She related the facts to a deep psychological malaise, the cause of which she attributes to an old dispute with her employer,” the prosecution said this Friday. An initial psychiatric assessment concluded that he was criminally responsible, but with an impairment of discernment during the events. »
Four category C weapons (firearms requiring a permit) or D (which can be purchased and possessed freely under conditions, for example tear gas bomb or collector’s weapon) were found in the vehicle, explained the prosecutor without further details. . These weapons “had been purchased following an attack of which the accused was allegedly the victim 4 years ago, and kept since,” specifies Sébastien Gallois.
At least three other people, “a cyclist, a pedestrian and a driver, as well as municipal police officers” were “put in danger” during the chase between the police and the motorist, the prosecution indicated. . According to the prosecution, this Friday, “eight other people, without being injured, have already filed a complaint, in connection with the numerous traffic offenses committed during the chase, from Rouen to Buchy”, without further details.
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