A 22-year-old man was sentenced Monday in immediate appearance in Le Havre to two years in prison for fireworks mortar fire on December 24 at a gendarmerie, according to the prosecution.
The defendant was also revoked a suspension with probation of four months, said the prosecutor of the Republic of Havre Bruno Dieudonné.
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The court condemned this man for "
willful violence with repeated weapons and attempted voluntary destruction of the gendarmerie by an explosive substance
", following the shooting at the gendarmerie.
On the other hand, he released him for attempting to damage a gendarme's vehicle.
On December 24, the gendarmerie had been targeted by “
at least two mortar fire
” fireworks, while a vehicle passed in front of the barracks of mobile gendarmes in the district of Caucriauville in Le Havre with three individuals inside, including one. had gone out through the sunroof, explained Thursday the deputy prosecutor of Le Havre, Cyrille Fournier.
A thirty-year-old gendarme who came out in civilian clothes from the barracks with his wife in a vehicle, at the time of the shots, lodged a complaint, added the magistrate.
“
According to the statements of the gendarme, the gunman aimed at the vehicle but without the mortar leaving.
The gendarme said that a mortar passed over the vehicle but the video recording did not allow it to be verified,
”Mr. Fournier also indicated.
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The vehicle from which the shots started had been identified and the driver had been taken into custody on December 29, according to the prosecution.
The other two occupants of the vehicle have not been identified at this stage "
but the investigation is continuing
", according to Mr. Dieudonné.