The anguish lasted five hours in the city center of Cahors but the outcome did not cause any injuries.
The Raid intervened this Sunday in the Lot prefecture to control a madman entrenched in his home.
It was the companion of this 45-year-old ex-soldier who gave the alert at the end of the morning, indicating that the man had attacked her and that he was armed.
Rifle and edged weapons
After having arrested him, “without the use of force”, specifies Patrick Meynier, the director of the Lot police, the Raid searched the home.
A “garden” rifle, sent to the expertise, four 12 mm cartridges and bladed weapons were found, indicates Alexandre Rossi, the public prosecutor of Cahors.
The man was taken to a hospital to be checked for possible psychiatric disorders.
A woman held in an apartment released by the Raid in Montpellier
A hooded and armed man arrested by the Raid in Rennes
Miscellaneous facts
Forced
Weapons
Violence against women
Cahors
Occitania