A gendarme was placed in police custody on Wednesday February 21 after fatally injuring a man carrying a knife during an intervention at his home. The surveillance and intervention squad of the national gendarmerie intervened at this man's home at the request of the municipal police.
A blatant investigation into the charge of “voluntary homicide by a person holding public authority” was opened and entrusted by the Draguignan public prosecutor's office to the general inspection and Marseille research section. The man was known for “his criminal record and likely to have mental disorders”