A firefighter, struck by a motorist, seriously injured-Liberation

A volunteer firefighter Was seriously injured early this Saturday, May 10 after being struck by a motorist near his barracks in Evian-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie), said the prefecture. The victim’s vital prognosis is initiated, the state services indicate in a press release, adding that the author « Has already been arrested by the police of the national police district of Thonon-les-Bains ».

The 38-year-old volunteer firefighter, father of a 3-year-old child, was in civilian outfit when he was struck, according to a source close to the investigation reported by our colleagues from Parisian. According to information from France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpesconfirmed to the Thonon-les-Bains prosecution, three firefighters went out at dawn to try to end at urban rodeo of several cars, which had annoyed them all night.

One of them was then violently hit by one of the vehicles and projected on the ground. The driver would have « deliberately dark on the firefighter ”says a source close to the file quoted by France 3. He was helicoptered in a state of criticism at Annecy hospital around 7 a.m.

Haute-Savoie prefect said « Share all his support for his relatives and colleagues firefighters, professionals or volunteers, especially present on the scene ».