A man is sentenced to one year in prison for attacking a police officer in Ogre

The man has been charged with violating road traffic rules or vehicle operation rules, if it was committed by a person driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, narcotic, psychotropic, toxic or other intoxicating substances, and if as a result the victim was seriously injured or it caused the death of a person.

He is also accused of assaulting a representative of the government or another state official in connection with his lawful official activity, which is punishable by imprisonment for a period of up to five years, temporary imprisonment, forced labor or a fine.

According to the findings of the lower court, the police officer received information that a person in Riga was driving a car, possibly under the influence of narcotics or other intoxicating substances. After spotting the suspicious vehicle, he began to follow, repeatedly ordering it to stop over the loudspeaker. The car stopped, but its driver disobeyed further lawful orders of the police officer.

At the moment when the police officer tried to get the driver out of the car, the man started a rapid movement towards the law enforcement officer, endangering the health and life of the representative of the state authority, and the chase continued. Also, while driving through the territory of the city of Ogre, the driver disobeyed the demands of the police for a long time, as well as violated the speed limit, and finally braked sharply, causing a collision with the police motorcycle driving behind. The motorcycle driver suffered serious, life-threatening injuries.

The accused claimed that he intended to evade arrest rather than attack the police officer. In this regard, the District Court has referred to the judgments expressed in the case law of the Supreme Court and indicated that the reason why the accused tried to avoid arrest is not decisive, but rather his deliberately performed actions, which were related to violence. The Senate recognized that the defendant’s cassation complaint did not present such arguments that could be the basis for canceling the district court’s decision in the relevant part.

The defendant argued that the violations he was charged with, including rapid braking, were due to the influence of narcotic substances, but the evidence related to how his ability to adequately manage the situation on the road and logically plan his actions was affected by the shot to the head was not evaluated. In this regard, the AT recognized that the appellate court did not evaluate all the evidence obtained in the case as a whole and in their interrelationship, previously assigned a higher degree of reliability to certain evidence than the rest of the evidence, did not evaluate certain evidence at all, and, on the other hand, several opinions do not correspond to the evidence obtained in the case.

It has already been reported that on July 24, 2019, while catching a man convicted of car theft, the police fired at least 15 shots in his direction.

on July 24 around On the 19th, the police received information from residents that an “Audi A6” car was moving along Krasta Street in Riga, and its driver was behaving inappropriately. The police, attracting two patrol police crews, tried to stop the car, but the driver did not comply with the police’s demands. On Moskavas Street, the fugitives tried to block him, but he rammed the police car and continued his escape.

At that time, the police crew of the Riga municipality was also involved in arresting the driver, but unsuccessfully, because the said crew had an accident.

In the meantime, the fleeing vehicle ran into the cars of residents. A woman and a child were in one of the vehicles at the time, and they suffered minor injuries.

Leaving the territory of Riga, the fleeing driver picked up enormous speed, speeding at more than 200 kilometers per hour.

Salaspils police officers and Ogre policemen were involved in the pursuit, who tried to create a blocking area. In the vicinity of Ogre, the police used a firearm to stop the car, firing at least 15 shots. Some of the shots hit the fleeing man’s body, and in the final stages of the pursuit, the fleeing driver crashed into a policeman on a motorcycle. The policeman suffered a broken leg in the accident.

It was later established that the driver was under the influence of drugs.

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