The Walloon Brabant Correctional Court on Monday sentenced Tervueren resident Cliff D., born in 1983, to a 30-month term, including ten months in prison, following a police chase on 8 August through Wavre, Grez-Doiceau and Chaumont-Gistoux.
At the hearing, the prosecution argued that the defendant had voluntarily attempted to kill a police officer at the wheel of his car.
At the time of the incident, the accused did not have a valid driver's licence, but was driving to Dion-Valmont via the E411, in his mother’s car, to buy cocaine for one of his friends. The traffic police say they followed him on the E411 while he was doing 190 km/hr, before he suddenly turned off towards the N25 in the direction of Grez-Doiceau.
Seeing himself pursued, he braked suddenly in front of a vehicle he had just passed, hoping to cause a collision with the traffic police car.
The police set up a roadblock, but the defendant forced it, and police fired three shots at the wheels of his car. He drove the wrong way down a highway ramp, then turned around and a chase ensued again in Grez-Doiceau.
The man was accused of voluntarily colliding with a police car, before entering a traffic circle at full speed, flying over it, then hitting a safety rail.
At the hearing, the public prosecutor mentioned the “worrying” situation of the defendant, already convicted 19 times for driving offences, drug use, theft, acts of rebellion and voluntary assault.
The prosecution had requested a three-year sentence with partial suspension.
