A policeman was injured after being dragged several hundred metres by a car fleeing a police check in the early hours of Friday morning in Chavigny, near Nancy.

The police had been called by a shopkeeper, who had been paid with counterfeit notes by a group of young people earlier in the evening. They placed a second order with him which then led to the shopkeeper alerting the police. Arriving on site, in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, the officers arrested one of the individuals, but three others fled on board a Renault Megane. The latter managed to briefly outrun the police before being spotted and stopped in the neighbouring village of Chavigny.

A policeman addressed the culprits through the car window on the passenger side, when the fugitives started the car and sped off with the officer hanging on to the door.

He was dragged for several hundred metres before the car finally hit a parked vehicle.

Police then managed to arrest the three occupants of the car without difficulty. The officer dragged by the car was taken to hospital with pelvic pain. The four arrested young people, three of whom are minors, were taken into police custody in Nancy.