A 26-year-old gendarme died on Saturday evening July 4 after being struck by a vehicle, following a refusal to comply during a roadside check in Port-Sainte-Marie (Lot-et-Garonne), a- 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 kilometers 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.
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 its Facebook page, the gendarmerie of Lot-et-Garonne said it was " bruised " by the " death in service " of a " comrade " and expressed its " deep emotion towards the family, relatives and our Lot-et-Garonne comrades hit hard in these terrible circumstances ”.
She said that " no comments on the investigation and the investigations in progress " would be made.