"Everyone is safe and sound. The GIGN gendarmes are relieved after a violent assault, on the night of Thursday to Friday, in Esparron-de-Pallières, in the Var. A man in his forties, who had taken refuge in a house with his 3-year-old daughter, was arrested by the elite gendarmerie unit, we learned this Friday morning.
"We stormed two points around the house and immediately isolated the little girl," said a GIGN spokesperson at 20 Minutes . The man then opened fire on our column, without causing any injuries, thanks to the shields. He was immediately arrested. The stun grenades launched by the military helped to destabilize him.
This forties spent more than 30 hours entrenched with his daughter in his mother's house, in the small village of Esparron. The gendarmes tried to negotiate with him, in vain: "He was not really consistent. "
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