He liked to post shiny and very noisy cars on his Instagram account and regularly relayed the gatherings of tuning enthusiasts in the suburbs of Toulouse.
Meetings banned in recent months due to health restrictions, which he did not fail to know in his capacity as… voluntary gendarme.
Last Wednesday, soldiers from Haute-Garonne arrested him after a careful investigation on social networks.
Confronted regularly with these gatherings in the evenings and weekends in the great outskirts of Toulouse, they sought to put an end to them.
Beyond not respecting the sanitary rules, these meetings cause a lot of noise pollution, many vehicles do not respect the standards and this sometimes turns into a "run",
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Suspended and tried in 2022
“An administrative decision was taken and he was suspended from his duties.
We are awaiting the judicial decision, ”said a spokesperson for the gendarmerie region at 20 Minutes.
The 25-year-old volunteer gendarme will have to explain himself to justice early next year and indicate whether he was using his cap to inform his friends of potential checks.
As recently as last weekend, checks were carried out in Muret during a gathering of around fifty people.
Sometimes the wild “runs” and rodeos turn into a drama, like last week when a rider who practiced these practices did a “wheelie”, balanced on his rear wheel, and fatally crashed into a 77-year-old lady.
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