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E. Frisullo / 20 Minutes

  • According to the Bordeaux prosecutor's office, the gendarmerie services were notified on Sunday of the presence in the department of a man wanted for attempted homicide on his partner in the Bouches-du-Rhône.

  • Spotted at the Saint-Selve tollbooth, south of Bordeaux, he opened fire on the gendarmes who responded.

  • After a mad chase he was apprehended in the early evening in Villenave-d'Ornon.

A man in his sixties wanted for attempted homicide on his partner in the Bouches-du-Rhône, was arrested Sunday evening around 6:10 p.m. in Villenave-d'Ornon, near Bordeaux (Gironde), at the end of 'a crazy chase, learned

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this Monday morning.

According to the Bordeaux prosecutor's office, "the gendarmerie services were notified on Sunday of the presence in the department" of this 59-year-old individual, suspected of having committed an attempted murder on Saturday on his companion on the jurisdiction of the Tarascon prosecutor's office .

The individual was located yesterday as traveling in a vehicle on the A62 from Agen towards Bordeaux.

Four shots fired in the direction of the gendarmes

The gendarmerie services identified at the Saint-Selve toll, “a vehicle that could correspond to the person concerned and tried to control him.

The driver then took out a gun and fired it four times.

“Two gendarmes then used their weapons, each on one occasion and thought they had hit the tires of the vehicle which nevertheless managed to escape.

No gendarme was injured.

After the intervention of the gendarmerie helicopter, the vehicle was then located in the Villenave d'Ornon sector, in the suburbs of Bordeaux.

After a chase, the police, CRS Autoroutière Aquitaine and the gendarmes managed to block the suspect's car at the corner of avenue de la République and rue Yvon-Mansencal.

They were repeatedly aimed by the individual and repeatedly used their weapon.

The suspect was arrested at 6:12 p.m. and taken into police custody for attempted voluntary homicide on a person holding public authority.

Slightly injured in his back, he was taken to hospital but was quickly released.

Police custody continues on Monday, and multiple investigations are underway.

No member of the security forces was injured.

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  • Bordeaux

  • Assassination attempt

  • Car chase

  • Gendarmerie

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