Gendarmes were attacked by a man with a brushcutter. To protect himself, one of the soldiers used his weapon, fatally hitting the threatening individual.
It was around 10 p.m. on Saturday January 14 when the gendarmes of the Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc brigade, near Le Havre in Seine-Maritime, saw flames rising from a motorhome area. They approach and discover the hearth when a man, equipped with a brushcutter, appears and tries to put them to flight, reports West France.
“He started hitting the police vehicle until he broke the windows. Then he tried to attack the driver”, explains to our colleagues the public prosecutor of Le Havre, Bruno Dieudonne.
Faced with this “very aggressive” man, underlines the magistrate, one of the gendarmes gets out of the car and the sum to calm down, weapon in hand. The suspect nevertheless continues to try to reach them with his brushcutter. “The gendarme, to protect himself and his colleague, used his weapon”, mortally affecting the individual, details the public prosecutor.
A previous attack on the same evening
According to the first elements of the investigation, the man who attacked the gendarmes was unknown to the justice services and lived on the margins. On the evening of the tragedy, before the arrival of the gendarmes, he had already attacked the owner of a motorhome: “He arrived in the back of this one when he wanted to get into his motorhome He first hit him on the back and then injured him in the hand. The victim was able to flee and had just informed the emergency services when the gendarmerie patrol arrived on the area”, develops Bruno Dieudonné .
always according to West France, the Le Havre public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation to determine the conditions in which the attacks on the owner of the motorhome and the gendarmes took place. The gendarmerie has also initiated an inspection in order to “determine the exact circumstances of the use of his weapon by the soldier. “Which is a usual procedure”, concludes the prosecutor.
