Drunk policeman causes fatal accident in Guadeloupe

A gendarme (illustration).

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In Guadeloupe, a gendarme "in a state of intoxication" caused a road accident on Thursday, killing a triathlete from the archipelago.

The soldier was indicted for "manslaughter" and left free under judicial control, Friday evening, we learned Saturday from the prosecutor's office in Basse-Terre.

The gendarme was not on duty at the time of the incident

Treated as "an average citizen"

The judicial investigation was opened for "manslaughter by a driver of a land motor vehicle aggravated by the circumstance of alcohol since the driver was inebriated at the time of the facts", indicated Emmanuel Delorme, public prosecutor from Basse-Terre.

"He is treated in the same way as a normal citizen" and "his function has nothing to do" with the accident, the prosecutor, on

, had specified on Friday,

since the 27-year-old gendarme, was not on duty at the time of the accident.

Thursday afternoon, around 5 p.m., when he had overtaken, his vehicle, on board which were also two other gendarmes, fatally struck a cyclist who was arriving opposite, on the coastal road to Gourbeyre.

The shock was "extremely violent", according to Emmanuel Delorme.

The three colleagues, resting, "were returning from lunch" in Vieux-Fort to their group located near Basse-Terre, the prosecutor added.

The driver tested positive for alcohol with 0.58 milligrams per liter of exhaled air, ie 1.16 grams, knowing that the rate being tort from 0.80 grams.

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