Four gendarmes were shot this Monday morning in Malville, between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), during an arrest, but their vital prognosis is not engaged, according to police sources.
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After a brawl during the weekend in Besné, about twenty kilometers from Malville, "
the gendarmes identified the author and they were to meet him
" Monday at dawn, explained the gendarmerie of the Pays de la Loire region .
The man, who fired at the gendarmes, was arrested.
The vital prognosis of the four gendarmes of the PSIG (Surveillance and Intervention Platoon) of Saint-Nazaire, affected by the shots, is not engaged, said the gendarmerie.
One of the four gendarmes, injured more seriously than the other three, "is
going to have an operation
".