Police officers from an anti-crime squad in Nîmes were forced to duck for cover after criminals fired at them early on Monday.
The officers were investigating the break-in of a mobile phone shop in the southern city when they ran into the suspected culprits.
The crooks, driving a black Audi RS4, shot at the windshield of the police cruiser, although none of the officers was injured.
The incident occurred around 1.30am, Le Parisien reported.
The burglars, believed responsible for two break-ins in the same night, were able to make a safe getaway.
Police estimated the value of stolen goods at around 40,000 euros.
A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.
In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that
a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.
“We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word ‘bomb’ in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,” the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.
The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologised on his club’s website.
“I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn’t joke about, especially in that place,” he said in a statement.
According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.
“This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,” prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.
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