The gendarme who killed a truck driver, tested positive for cocaine and who refused to comply, was placed in custody late Friday afternoon and the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) seized, announced this Saturday the prosecutor of Montauban. The soldier, a 36-year-old adjutant, will thus "be heard, with a lawyer" and "it is possible that his custody will be prolonged," said Laurent Czernik during a press conference.
The investigation will have to verify under what circumstances the soldier used his weapon against this 35-year-old truck driver, who had just collided with a gendarmerie vehicle on the highway near Montauban, after having escaped a road check.
The gendarme "a priori fired four times" and "his desire was a priori to stop the road assembly", underlined the magistrate. "A 9mm bullet fatally hit the driver" who was then extracted from the truck, before it caught fire. An autopsy is due on Monday.
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