A gendarmerie check.

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The man who shot a gendarme in the leg with the service weapon of this last Wednesday in Sanguinet (Landes) was indicted and imprisoned on Friday, we learned from the Mont-de prosecutor's office. -Marsan.

This twenty-year-old man was remanded in custody in Mont-de-Marsan after the opening of a judicial investigation for “attempted murder and violence against a person holding public authority”.

He is suspected of having seized the service weapon of a gendarme during a melee and of having fired a shot in the leg, after having previously refused to be checked and tried to run away, Tuesday at midday.

The gendarmes had been approached by a relative of this young man to find him.

The wounded gendarme, based in Parentis-en-Born (Landes), was hit in the thigh but left the hospital in Arcachon (Gironde) where he had been admitted on Tuesday without his life being in danger.

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A gendarme shot dead by a man who took his service weapon

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