Third Open-Window Police Victim of the Year
Who needs airco if you have an open window policy?
Here we go again: man survives jump out of police window but dies under a hail of bullets
The French men of law and order like a breeze of fresh air, so they tend to keep windows open while they interrogate their suspects.
Yesterday, a 27-year old man saw his chance, asked his interrogator if he could have a smoke, and jumped out of the window into the courtyard 4.60m below him. He survived the drop and –still handcuffed– ran to his freedom. Not for long, though. A trigger-happy gendarme pulled out his gun and fired seven times at the escapee. Four bullets missed, but three hit their target, one of them perforating the man’s thorax, and killing him. He leaves three small children and a widow behind.
It’s the third time this year that a suspect manages to jump out of a window under the police’s eyes. In March, a man jumped 10 meters, but survived with a broken ankle and elbow. In January, another suspect jumped from the ninth floor but didn’t survive.
Source (in French)
Sun 25-May-08 | Posted in: Oops
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Comment from Fernandez
Time: May 26, 2008, 12:19 am
Another one?!
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