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A man who had entrenched himself at his home Saturday evening in Cantal went in the night, after firing on the gendarmes who injured him while retaliating, we learned Sunday from them.
No one was injured among the police, according to the same source confirming information tweeted by a journalist from the regional daily
La Montagne
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The intervention group of the national gendarmerie (GIGN) had been called in as reinforcements.
According to the Auvergne newspaper, this 45-year-old man had taken refuge in his home in Lanobre, in the north of the department, and was armed with a hunting rifle.
The first negotiations were unsuccessful, the madman firing several times even leaving his home during the evening to target the gendarmes who then retaliated.
" Make the headlines "
“He was injured but we didn't know because he had shut himself up at home.
We discovered it afterwards, ”the gendarmerie told AFP.
Hit in an arm and a leg, he was hospitalized.
The mayor of the town had told La Montagne that the madman, "determined" and who would experience a difficult separation, wanted "to make the headlines on Sunday morning".
An investigation is underway.
In December, a man entrenched in the Puy-de-Dôme had killed three gendarmes by shooting at them, before being found dead.
In January, another had been killed in Savoy by GIGN gendarmes after having shot them.
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