A 26-year-old gendarme died on Saturday evening after being struck by a vehicle, following a refusal to comply during a roadside check in Port-Sainte-Marie, in Lot-et-Garonne, he said. we learned from the prosecution.
The driver was quickly arrested after the facts, which took place around 9:30 p.m. in this town located about twenty km west of Agen, it was said from the same source. He was placed in police custody at the Agen gendarmerie, we learned from the gendarmerie.
A "bruised" gendarmerie
The prosecution, which confirmed information from La Dépêche du Midi , plans to communicate in more detail Sunday morning about the circumstances of the death.
The young woman is part of the gendarmerie brigade of Aiguillon, a commune near Port-Sainte-Marie, Stéphanie Rabat, deputy public prosecutor for Agen, told AFP on her Facebook page, the gendarmerie du Lot-et-Garonne said he was "bruised" by the "death in service" of a "comrade" and expressed his "deep emotion towards the family, relatives and our comrades in Lot-et -Garonne hit hard in these terrible circumstances. "
She said that "no comments on the investigation and the investigations in progress" would be made.