It was one of their young colleagues who had denounced their actions. Two gendarmes from the Arreau brigade in the Hautes-Pyrénées were sentenced Tuesday evening by the Tarbes criminal court to prison terms of 18 and 15 months suspended for forgery and forgery.
They were, however, acquitted of the charges of aggravated theft of a weapon. The events date back to February 2017. On that day, the soldiers were called in for damage to the cellars of Saint-Lary Soulan. They discover a 22 caliber pistol and ammunition there. One of the gendarmes, 37, is then suspected of having wanted to keep the weapon by not entering it in the register, then of having produced false documents and having transmitted them to his hierarchy.
His superior, a now retired chief warrant officer, was also prosecuted for inciting the thirties to falsify the documents and for having modified a report himself.
"Inadmissible" for the Prosecutor
One of their colleague, present on the spot at the time of the facts, had filed a complaint, triggering an investigation by the general inspection of the national gendarmerie. He had also filed a complaint for "moral harassment", explaining a change in treatment since his report. On this last point, the Tarbes judges did not follow up, the prosecutor himself finding that the facts were not characterized.
The leader of the package did not fail in his indictment to denounce "inadmissible facts" and a "detestable affair". He had asked for conditional sentences of two years and eighteen months.
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