The RAID police were mobilized Thursday noon in the Saint-Just des Marais district in Beauvais (Oise), where an armed man had taken refuge in his home.
While an important security device had been put in place in the morning around rue Lucien-Lainé and the axes nearby, the man in his fifties ended up ending his life, before the intervention of the police forces.
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“The Beauvais police and the RAID intervened at 12:45 p.m. today, a gunshot having been heard in a home during the morning, specifies Parisian Jean-Pascal Arlaux, assistant prosecutor at the Beauvais prosecution.
A safety device has been put in place.
The alleged shooter was found dead in his home.
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The prosecution specifies that an “investigation in search of the causes of death has been opened and entrusted to the Beauvais police station”.
Present on the spot, the mayor of Beauvais Frank Pia also confirms that “the man ended his life”.
Earlier in the morning, the firefighters had tried to go to his home after being alerted by the employer of this man in his fifties and living alone at home and who had not shown up. at his work.
The man unfavorably known to justice - "a heavy investigation against him", says someone close to the case -, has several weapons in his home.
On the spot, the police decide to request the intervention of the elite police officers of the Raid.
At least one gunshot would have been heard, without it being possible to confirm that the man ended his life at that time.
The madman was, according to our information, “inanimate” when the RAID police officers burst into his accommodation.