The custody of the gendarme author on Friday of a fatal shooting at a truck driver who refused to comply was lifted Sunday afternoon, we learned from the prosecutor of Montauban.
This 36-year-old adjutant was released after an extension of his police custody which began on Friday. Injured, the soldier is on sick leave, said the prosecutor of the Republic Laurent Czernik.
IGGN investigation continues
The investigation of the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) for "violence by a person holding public authority resulting in death without intention of giving it" continues under the authority of the prosecution, underlined Mr. Czernik . “Experts” from the vehicle department of the IRCGN (Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie) will have to reconstruct the unfolding of the events.
This investigation must determine the circumstances in which the soldier used his weapon against this 35-year-old driver, who had just collided with a gendarmerie vehicle on the highway near Montauban, after having fled a traffic check. According to the first observations the soldier fired four times including one fatal shot, an autopsy must be performed.
The driver, of French nationality, "lived a priori with his mother in Montauban" and was temporary for a company based in Lot-et-Garonne, the prosecutor said on Saturday. He had been sentenced 7 times including 3 times for driving without insurance, it was specified.
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Montauban: Police custody for the gendarme who killed a truck driver
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A truck driver killed near Montauban after a gendarme was fired for refusing to comply
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