A 42-year-old man almost seriously injured two motorcyclists traveling in the Pradettes district of Toulouse on Friday, August 23, 2024. During his arrest, he head-butted a police officer in particular.
During this Olympic period, his javelin throw almost caused a serious accident. A 42-year-old man was arrested on Friday after throwing an iron bar at two motorcyclists. The couple was driving in the Pradettes neighborhood around 1:15 a.m. when the individual allegedly tried to hit them with the crowbar. The driver of the two-wheeler managed to swerve around the piece of scrap metal at the last moment before coming to a halt a few meters away in shock. Faced with an irate and visibly drunk individual, this amateur boxer preferred to contact the police rather than take the law into his own hands.
Head places and bird names
And the arrest of the indelicate person was quite eventful. The forty-year-old belches: “Son of a…, baltringues, I'll shoot you…”. The police have the right to bird names. The accused ended up headbutting a Bac Nuit policeman, who was injured in the eye. He also bites another official and tries to punch him whenever he gets the chance (3 days of ITT for agents). Once at the police station, he will have to be dragged to a jail to calm down.
Accused pleads 'bad combination of circumstances'
Featured in an immediate appearance on Monday, plump, shaven-headed Eric C. awkwardly defends himself: “it's a bad combination of circumstances, I went looking for this bar to pick up the door of the dorm where my car key had fallen” and “when I threw on the road, the bike is far away”. A completely different version of the testimony of the biker couple, who claim to have seen a man come out who “threw the bar like a spear”, “grazed my husband's head” even his partner said.
As a civil party, Me Martin Vatinel, the police lawyer, scoffs at the “fables of the defendant”. Me Ferdinand Djammen Nzepa, in defense, will denounce the violent conditions of his client's arrest. The prosecutor, Sylvain Cordesse, is asking for 1 year in prison for Eric C. convicted on several occasions, especially for violence, carrying a prohibited weapon and insults. The court granted the prosecutor's requests, the defendant was also deprived of his civil rights for two years and was prohibited from owning a weapon for 3 years. He will have to compensate the victims.