The gendarmes shot dead by a madman in Saint-Just, near Ambert (Puy-de-Dôme), at the end of 2020, "obviously had no chance", sums up

La Montagne

, which reveals this legal follow-up.


Two complaints against X for "manslaughter" have just been filed with the public prosecutor of Clermont-Ferrand by the counsel of two families of these soldiers who died in the exercise of their functions.

The lawyers justify these steps “because the families need to know the whole truth”.


On the night of December 22 to 23, 2020, Frédérik L., 48, shot dead three soldiers and seriously injured a fourth, while they intervened to rescue the extremist's companion.

Victim of domestic violence, she then took refuge on the roof of the family home.

Heavily armed, the man had set fire to the building and then fled in his vehicle, before being found dead, a weapon in his hand.

“The investigation shows that there were successive failures to transmit information that evening”

The information gathered during the tragedy by the Corg (the gendarmerie's operations and intelligence center), according to which the madman was heavily armed, would have been only partially transmitted to the men on the ground, according to investigative elements. revealed this Monday by the regional daily.

According to Me Anne-Laure Lebert, lawyer for one of the families, "the instruction to wait for the Gign (the intervention group of the national gendarmerie) was never given and we sent to a scene of war a 21-year-old policeman who had hardly ever handled a weapon.


Contacted by AFP in Paris, the national gendarmerie did not respond immediately.

As part of the judicial investigation for “assassination” and “attempted assassination” opened after the fact, the families had demanded a reconstitution.

In vain.

Their lawyers have announced that they have lodged an appeal in cassation on this point.


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