The latest in a countrywide spate of violent traffic stops, an 18-year-old girl was slain in a gun duel with police in southeast France early on Wednesday, according to prosecutors.
According to a statement from Grenoble prosecutor Eric Vaillant, the youngster was a passenger in a car whose driver shot at police after being told to halt.
When police opened fire, she “died of the consequences of a shot that hit her in the neck,” Vaillant continued, while the injured driver was taken to the hospital.
When the cops got out of their car to pull the automobile over in the Saint-Martin-d’Heres neighbourhood of Grenoble, the male driver was already accelerating toward them, according to the prosecution.
After exchanging gunfire, he lost control of the vehicle and was apprehended while attempting to escape on foot.
The driver is being looked into for attempted official murder while the national internal affairs organisation of France, the IGPN, is looking into the rounds fired by the police.
In France, there have been more than ten fatalities just in 2022 as a result of drivers who disobeyed police orders to stop.
