Royan driver who rammed anti-crime squad car tests positive for cannabis
A driver whose van was cornered in a dead end in Royan on the night of 9 September 2026 turned round and deliberately drove into a Brigade anti criminalité car, police said. He was arrested, tested positive for alcohol, cocaine and THC, had a lump of cannabis resin on him, and is to be tried by the correctional court of Saintes.
In the night of Wednesday 9 September 2026, officers of the anti-crime squad,
the Brigade anti criminalité or BAC, tried to stop a van travelling at very high
speed through Royan, and the driver fled.[1]Cornered in a dead end, the
driver turned round and deliberately drove at the BAC car, damaging its front
end.[1]The officers said the driver then threw himself onto the knees of one
of his two passengers, apparently hoping to escape responsibility, and he was
arrested and placed in police custody.[1]
In police custody tests showed he had been driving after alcohol, cocaine and
THC, the psychoactive compound in cannabis.[1]Police also found a lump of
cannabis resin on him.[1]The driver admitted he had no driving licence and
denied having hit the police car on purpose, and officers in the BAC car
suffered neck pain.[1]
He is to be tried by the correctional court of Saintes, which hears less serious
offences.[2]The account came from a post by the Charente-Maritime police on
their Facebook page.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Agency
Police nationale de Charente-Maritime
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Possession
Setting
Street or public place, Vehicle
Charge
refusal to stop, driving after alcohol, THC and cocaine use, driving without a licence, deliberately ramming a police vehicle
Case stage
Charged
Region
Charente-Maritime
Sources
Sud Ouestsudouest.frFRUn chauffard fonce sur un véhicule de la Brigade anti criminalité à Royan. Positif à l’alcool, au cannabis et la cocaïne, il est convoqué au tribunal
ICIici.frFRCourse-poursuite à Royan : sans permis, il emboutit une voiture de police puis tente de prendre la place de son passager
Open questions the AI reported
Police describe a lump of cannabis resin but give no weight, so no kilogram figure is recorded.
The sources do not list the charges formally, give a hearing date or name the driver; he is identified only as the driver of a van with two passengers.
The outlets reproduce the Charente-Maritime police Facebook post, and ICI cites the commissariat and other reporting, so they are not independent accounts; the police post itself could not be opened.
It is not stated whether the driver was released after custody or held pending the hearing.
Anti-crime squad officers arrested three men selling cocaine and cannabis resin from Marseille streets on Sunday 8 November 2026, two in the 11th arrondissement and one in the 15th. Two officers were injured overpowering the third man, and all three were taken into police custody.
A 24-year-old man was arrested in Montpellier's Saint-Martin neighbourhood on 8 November 2026 after offering to sell cannabis to an undercover anti-crime (BAC) officer, and three officers were needed to detain him when he bit one of them. Officers found 21 g of cannabis, a small amount of cocaine and cash nearby, and he is due in court on 10 November.
Police in Le Mans stopped a 22-year-old riding an electric scooter at high speed on the pavement on 8 November 2026 after he refused to stop, then found a substance that appeared to be cannabis resin on him. He was held in custody and is to be summoned in June 2027 under a fixed-penalty court order providing for 70 hours of unpaid work.
Police in Draguignan arrested one adult and two minors after finding nearly 2.5 kg of cannabis resin disguised as Dubai chocolate bars in their car. One of the three, who was to deliver the drugs, was referred to the prosecutor and placed under judicial supervision pending trial.
