Police car chase closes Lyon airport after fugitive drives onto the RUNWAY to flee cops

Police car chase closes Lyon airport after fugitive drives onto the RUNWAY to flee cops

• High-speed police car chase on runway at Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport 
• Fugitive has reportedly refused to stop at police checkpoint
• Driver forced gate to enter runway, and was arrested shortly after 
• Airport in south-east France has been shut down until this evening

Lyon airport in southeast France has been shut down after a high-speed police car chase veered off the road and onto the runway.

Local news reports that the chase had begun on a nearby motorway, where the driver of a Mercedes had been going the wrong way and refused to stop.

In a desperate attempt to flee justice, the driver crashed into a barrier at a small aerodrome before heading to Lyon’s much larger Saint Exupery airport. 

Flight risk: The dramatic car chase had begun on a nearby motorway when the driver of a Mercedes had refused to stop at a police check point 

The car then rammed through two glass doors at the airport’s Terminal 1 to drive onto the runway tarmac.

Video footage shows police chasing the light-coloured Mercedes on the runway at Lyon Saint-Exupéry on Monday morning.

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The car is seen careening across the dirt and onto the runway before the fugitive throws himself from the vehicle and starts running.

Within seconds, he is surrounded by at least a dozen police officers and several police cars and is arrested. 

Nowhere to run: The driver forced a gate at Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport and was filmed speeding down the runway before he threw himself from the vehicle and started running

Done for: More than a dozen officers can be seen running after him on the runway and the fugitive was apprehended at the scene

Crash: One of the glass doors destroyed by the man in the vehicle

The airport has been closed until at least 6pm local time.

Flights are being diverted to Marseilles or other nearby destinations.

Local government press officer Christelle Monteagudo said Monday that the man’s motives were unknown and that nothing is being ruled out at this point.   

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