Two lovers have a great fright in Surgères.
While they were isolated on September 10 "in a wood in their vehicle to share a moment of intimacy", tell the gendarmes of Charente-Maritime on their Facebook page, an armed individual wanted to make them leave. .
“Our young couple fled by reversing but noted with dismay that the man of the woods was pointing them with a gun.
They hear a thud and think that the attacker is using a soft air type rifle, ”continue the gendarmes.
Weapons and drugs seized
The couple informed the gendarmerie who carried out an initial reconnaissance of the place and discovered several parked caravans.
The next day, the surveillance and intervention platoon of the Rochefort gendarmerie and a dog team questioned the weapon bearer on the spot and he was taken into police custody.
"He admits having fired in the direction of the two lovebirds with a 22LR caliber M16 type rifle", specify the gendarmes.
The search will make it possible to get hold of three other rifles, a pellet gun, a revolver with gas cartridges, an airsoft-type submachine gun.
Investigators also discovered 1.25 g of cocaine, 129 g of herbal cannabis, 13 plants of cannabis and cannabis cultivation equipment.
This seizure suggests that the armed individual wanted to keep the two lovers away from illegal plantations.
Bordeaux
Gironde: 850 plants of cannabis torn off in a week by the gendarmes
Miscellaneous
Gironde: Six individuals "picked" by the gendarmes after having stolen 2,000 plants of industrial hemp
Poitou-Charentes
Cannabis
Weapons
Gendarmerie
Aquitaine
Miscellaneous