[HIGHLIGHTS] An armed octogenarian mortally wounded by the shooting of a gendarme

An 82-year-old man, having used a firearm, died Sunday in Moselle. He was hit by the shot of a gendarme who would have acted in a state of "legitimate response" The facts occurred Sunday afternoon in Fontoy, a town forty kilometers north of Metz.

An investigation by the Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) has been opened, said the prosecutor of the Republic in Thionville, Brice Partouche.