The facts took place around 10 p.m.
The Dourdan gendarmerie was the target of mortar fire overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Quickly, a helicopter was deployed to try to identify the perpetrators.
In vain.
"No one was injured and no material damage is to be deplored," says one on the side of the gendarmerie.
It was about fire in the direction of the barracks but no building was hit ”.
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Nevertheless, the event created a stir among the families of the military who live in this precinct.
"As in all barracks, there are in Dourdan the places where the gendarmes work and the lodgings where they live", one adds.
The Evry-Courcouronnes public prosecutor's office has opened a flagrant investigation to find the perpetrators of these facts.
A first in Dourdan
On their Facebook page, the gendarmes of Essonne wrote this Wednesday morning that “Colonel Hugues Sublet, commander of the Groupement, strongly condemns these facts and assures the gendarmes and their families of his unfailing support”. In a press release, the municipality says it condemns "this inadmissible act against the police". This is the first time that the gendarmerie has been targeted. "The gendarmes confirmed to us that it was an isolated act," indicates Paolo De Carvalho, the mayor (LREM) of this municipality of 11,000 inhabitants. There is no sensitive business in progress. I think this is more of something exceptional, we are far from urban guerrilla warfare. "
However, the mayor is not that surprised.
“The current issues do not only affect priority neighborhoods for city policy.
Today, rural areas suffer from the same pathologies.
It only takes one or two individuals for it to explode.
Although here we are not used to it.
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