A perilous intervention in an individual suffering from psychiatric disorders left three wounded among the gendarmes, we learned from a gendarmerie source, confirming information from Franceinfo.
This Wednesday evening, the soldiers are called to Lardy, in the south of Essonne, for a man threatening his neighbor with a pistol.
On the spot, they request reinforcements from the Gendarmerie Surveillance and Intervention Platoon (PSIG).
Because the 42-year-old man is very unfavorably known by local authorities, in particular for his psychiatric disorders.
His state incompatible with police custody
On the spot, the gendarmes of the Lardy territorial brigade first noticed that the weapon in question was more like an “airsoft gun”.
It is actually an alarm gun.
Once the reinforcements arrived on the spot, the man presented himself to the gendarmes without his weapon.
The soldiers, who know him, then try to challenge him three to one.
"It is there that he does not let himself go and takes out a knife", confides a source close to the investigation.
"I have three wounded soldiers," confirms Karine Lejeune, the gendarmerie colonel of Essonne.
The first was hospitalized for a cut in the face, which requires 10 stitches, the second was cut by hand, and a third took a punch ”.
Following his arrest, the man was taken into police custody.
But it was lifted, the psychiatric state of the suspect being incompatible with it.
He was hospitalized automatically.
The Etampes research brigade was seized of the investigation.
