2023-12-26 05:24:48
A 38-year-old man, armed and holed up at his home in Pas-de-Calais, slightly injured three gendarmes during their intervention on Monday, indicate BFMTV et The voice of the North.
Equipped with a pellet rifle, the individual isolated himself at his home in Blessy, north of Béthune, on the night of Sunday December 24 to Monday December 25, around 2 a.m. Alcoholic, according to the city’s mayor Jean-Marc Furgerot, the man “broke everything at home”. “He locked himself in his room and refuses to come out,” he explains to La Voix du Nord.
The maniac then shot the gendarmes who intervened at his home, where he lives with his parents. Three gendarmes “were slightly injured by pellet rifle fire”, one in the arch, one in an arm and another in a thigh, the Hauts-de-France gendarmerie told AFP.
A previous alert for violence
It was the man’s parents, often threatened by the latter, who is known to be frequently drunk, who raised the alarm.
A former police officer, the man would have “unfortunately been fired for alcoholism and for acts of embezzlement”, explained Jean-Marc Furgerot to BFMTV. He had already been the subject of an alert for violence a few days ago, from his mother. Police officers went to the scene.
He has also “already attempted suicide,” the councilor told AFP.
At the beginning of the afternoon this Monday, forces from the GIGN of Reims were mobilized to the scene. They were subsequently supported by forces from the GIGN in Paris. In total, around fifty men are on site and take turns in the negotiations.
At 4 p.m., these negotiations, carried out over a loudspeaker with the madman, still holed up in his home, were still in progress.
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