The Douai general prosecutor's office announced on Friday that it would appeal the acquittal of the GIGN gendarme. Alexandre B.

was acquitted Thursday by the criminal court of Pas-de-Calais. He was on trial for a fatal shooting in 2018 of a 22-year-old young man during a 'one of arrest' “Justice is beautiful!” cried relatives of the victim, Henri Lenfant, a member of the Traveler community.