After fourteen years in Paris, I thought it was going to be Club Med here. "
Laughing, the officer psig (Platoon surveillance and intervention of the gendarmerie) spans trash littering the floor of the room.
With his colleagues, they have just picked up a suspect there.
It's a nondescript little apartment, a mezzanine in a quiet street in Aiguillon, in New Aquitaine, where there is a smell of dust and humidity.
Crammed in a corner, a tiny, trembling chihuahua watches the gendarmes search the corners of the room for weapons and narcotics.
Pinned on a wall, Che Guevara observes the scene.
Between a few spilled cans of beer whose liquid still flows slowly on the floating floor, a little heroin and a few pills of Subutex (a legal substitute for heroin and often diverted in drug trafficking).
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Sitting on mattresses placed on wooden pallets as a box spring and covered with wet towels and a few cigarette butts, two individuals still paralyzed by the suddenness of the intervention frame the man whom the gendarmes came to arrest. On the counter in the kitchenette, several boxes of pregnancy tests are piled up. One of the officers puts his cell phone on the speaker.
At the end of the line, an interpreter speaking French and Portuguese takes care of translating the conversation between the police and the people arrested.
"We do have a gendarme who speaks Portuguese, but the prosecutor who issued us the warrant refuses that we provide the translation
ourselves
",
specifies the head marshal Johnny Dreux, who takes part in the intervention. A matter of procedural flaw. The two friends of the suspect are released immediately, the third is handcuffed before being taken on board. Suspect of what? Such a muscular device for a few pills and a few grams of heroines? The presence of so many gendarmes and members of the Psig was motivated by a completely different reason.
Arrest of an individual suspected of violence against his pregnant girlfriend.
Guillaume Herbaut / Agence VU
Earlier in the day, at the Tonneins gendarmerie, a woman came to testify to the following facts: her friend, who had been hosting her for a few days, was allegedly the victim of violence by her partner under the influence of drugs .
This same friend, several months pregnant, was allegedly beaten several times in the stomach by the said suspect who then tried to extort money from the complainant before chasing her by car.
Faced with the seriousness of the alleged facts, the possible endangerment of an unborn child and the violent profile of the boyfriend already known to the gendarmerie services for other crimes, the prosecutor had
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