Military honors will be returned this Thursday to Mélanie Lemée, the gendarme of 25 killed by a driver last Saturday in Lot-et-Garonne. It will take place at the headquarters of the gendarmerie region of New Aquitaine, at the Battesti barracks in Mérignac (Gironde), in the presence of the new Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.
Mélanie Lemée, who was also a very high level judokate, was mowed last Saturday, shortly before 9 p.m., by a driver who wanted to force a gendarmerie barrage in Port-Sainte-Marie, near Agen (Lot-et -Garonne). The findings made it possible to establish that the individual was traveling at a speed of between 130 and 160 km / h when he struck the young woman.
The motorist drove without a license and transported cocaine
The motorist, who was arrested almost immediately after the tragedy, is 26 years old, and unfavorably known to the police and gendarmerie services. He had already been convicted three times, including for offenses against the drugs and traffic laws. Originally from the department, the man drove without a license, transported cocaine. He was indicted for “intentional homicide on a person depositing public authority” and faces life imprisonment.
"He absolutely does not dispute his responsibility but obviously disputes the homicidal intention which the prosecution has widely reported on," his lawyer Me Edouard Martial said to the press on Tuesday.
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Lot-et-Garonne: The motorist who cut down a young gendarme was traveling "between 130 and 160 km / h at the time of the impact"
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