A gendarme killed on Saturday January 14 with his service weapon a man armed with a brushcutter who had been aggressive and threatening towards the gendarmes, on a motorhome area near Le Havre, it was reported. learned this Monday from the public prosecutor of Le Havre Bruno Dieudonné.
“While they were taking their shift around 10 p.m., two gendarmes saw flames at the Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc motorhome area” according to the prosecutor. During the site inspection “an individual came out of nowhere, armed with a brushcutter and extremely aggressive”said the magistrate.
The individual then has “hit the vehicle [des gendarmes, NDLR]broke the window as well as the windshield” and beat the major “still in the vehicle”which then has “pulled out his weapon, gave warnings as the man advanced towards him trying to hit him and fired several times”.
” Self-defense “
The man, “marginalized in recent times and residing in the Eure”, 39, died instantly. Unknown to the police, he had “attacked a motorhome shortly before with a weapon as the latter entered his vehicle” always according to the same source.
Two investigations have been opened. Moon “entrusted to the general inspectorate of the national gendarmerie for intentional violence resulting in death without intention of giving it. The major has already been heard in the presence of his lawyer and believes he acted in self-defense..
And the other about “the attack suffered by the major and that suffered by the other motorhome owner shortly before the facts, entrusted to the Rouen research section”added Bruno Dieudonné.
