• The prefect of the Dordogne asks this Sunday at the beginning of the afternoon to the inhabitants of Lardin-Saint-Lazare "to remain at their home while awaiting new information.

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  • More than 300 soldiers are now deployed to find an armed fugitive, in an area of ​​4 km2 around this village.

  • The individual, a former soldier, had presented around midnight to the home of his ex-girlfriend, to attack his new companion.

The gendarmerie operation is still in progress in the town of Lardin Saint Lazare, near Sarlat, (Dordogne), early Sunday afternoon.

An armed and dangerous fugitive is still wanted.

In a press release issued at 1:30 p.m., the prefect of the Dordogne asks the inhabitants of the area "to remain at their homes while awaiting new information.

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takes stock of what we know of the situation.

What is the situation ?

Sunday at 2:30 p.m., the device went from 160 gendarmes engaged in the morning, to just over 300 gendarmes and four helicopters.

The GIGN branch in Toulouse and the central GIGN are on site.

The soldiers are still trying to apprehend a fugitive in his thirties, heavily armed and dangerous, who was located in a wooded area of ​​4 km2 near Lardin-Saint-Lazare (Dordogne).

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Contact was made with the individual on several occasions, but he responded with his weapons, firing at the gendarmes and a helicopter.

“Our GIGN branch in Toulouse came under heavy fire on armor plating,” the gendarmerie told us in the morning.

The gendarmes did not reply, the prefect told AFP, according to whom "we must resolve this situation as best as possible, that is to say without bloodshed so that he can answer for his actions without putting in danger the forces of gendarmerie ”.

What happened ?

Around midnight, an individual in his thirties, "alcoholic" according to the mayor of the village Francine Bourra, came to the home of his ex-partner in the context of a family dispute. He was trying to attack her new companion, whom he would have slightly hurt. The woman and her three children are unharmed and were taken to safety by the gendarmes, alerted by the mayor of Lardin-Saint-Lazare. The individual opened fire in the direction of the soldiers on their arrival before fleeing.

Francine Bourra told

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having seen the fugitive around 5 am, all in black dressed and with a backpack, while he was fleeing.

Since then, a real manhunt has started to find him, the prefect of the Dordogne also asking all the inhabitants of the village to stay at home.

What do we know about the fugitive?

He is a former soldier, who practiced between 2011 and 2016. He knows the handling of weapons well, and he moves quickly.

The mayor of the village confirmed to

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 that he had already been convicted of domestic violence, and that he is wearing an electronic bracelet.

The prefect of the Dordogne stressed that he was “dangerous.

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What is he armed with?

"He has a big game hunting weapon, a powerful weapon which is indeed a dangerous weapon," General André Pétillot, commander of the New Aquitaine gendarmerie region, told the press.

According to a source close to the file, it is a 30-30 caliber Winchester which is used in particular for boar hunting.

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