A truck driver who refused to comply during a check was killed on Friday after a gendarme was shot. The man had fled before hitting a gendarmerie vehicle in which was the gendarme who took out his weapon.

A truck driver who refused to obey the gendarmes on the highway near Montauban was killed on Friday after a gendarme shot him and his truck caught fire, the prosecution told AFP. "He refused to obey following a road check, he fled, hit a gendarmerie vehicle in which was a gendarme. A gendarme used his weapon, the driver was hit and the truck caught fire. The autopsy will determine the causes of his death, "added the prosecution.

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