He pleaded error at the hearing.
The boss of the municipal police of Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) appeared Monday before the Angers criminal court for carrying a weapon without legitimate reason and for forgery and use of false administrative documents, reports
Le Courrier de l'Ouest
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In November 2020, this former gendarme had equipped three new newly assigned agents with telescopic defense batons and tear gas canisters without an authorization request being made to the prefecture services.
The investigation, carried out by the judicial police, also brought to light that the city's arms registers had been disguised to conceal illegitimate allocations to municipal police officers, the daily specifies.
A double murder that occurred a few days earlier
The facts took place in a tense context in Cholet where a double homicide had occurred a few days earlier.
A 35-year-old man, who said he was "guided by God", had killed two people in the middle of the street.
“I had agents who had to guard the cemetery for All Saints' Day.
Given the terrorist context, the places of worship targeted, we decided by mutual agreement to arm one of the agents for these parties, ”explained the boss of the municipal police at the helm.
The same decision was made for two agents who had not yet completed their training.
At the end of the hearing, the court sentenced the chief of the municipal police of Cholet to six months in prison, suspended for complicity in carrying a weapon.
He has also not been banned from practicing and has been released for the facts of forgery in an administrative document.
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