Overview

• The adjudant-chef detailed placing stop sticks on Port-Sainte-Marie’s roadway before Yassine El Azizi’s Renault Clio struck gendarme Mélanie Lemée on July 4, 2020
• He testified that the fleeing driver approached at over 130 km/h and briefly glanced toward officers before impact
• Court heard that El Azizi consciously drove into the interception zone despite the danger and discarded 165 grams of cocaine ahead of his arrest
• Psychiatric experts attributed the surviving adjudant-chef’s daily flashbacks and dissociative episodes to survivor’s guilt and post-traumatic stress disorder
• El Azizi faces a potential life sentence at the Cour d’assises de Lot-et-Garonne for voluntary violence causing death without intent