"
Allah akbar
", he would have shouted before taking action.
A man was shot and wounded after wounding gendarmes from the motorway platoon in Orange (Vaucluse), on the afternoon of Sunday May 7, reports
Le Dauphiné Libéré
.
The man in his thirties, who is not from the region, was checked by two soldiers around 2:30 p.m. when he was near a brush fire, near the Mornas rest area (north of Orange).
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According to the local newspaper, he pulled out a knife and an iron bar before attacking the police.
The latter would have responded with their electric pulse pistol and then with their handguns.
The assailant was reportedly hit five times by bullets and rushed to hospital in Avignon.
His condition is said to be critical.
Motives still unknown
During this altercation, two gendarmes, women aged 44 and 29, were injured.
Also transferred to the hospital, they would have been only slightly affected.
As part of the investigation, large resources were deployed on the ground for the rest of the day.
The public prosecutor in Carpentras, Hélène Mourges, investigators from the Marseille Research Section and their colleagues from the research brigade of the Orange company have been mobilized, indicates Le Dauphiné
Libéré
.
At this stage of the investigations, and given the state of health of the individual arrested, his real motivations are still unknown.
Because of the comments he made, the terrorist character is not excluded, notes the local newspaper.
bus crash
In addition to the altercation with the gendarmes, the assailant is also suspected of being the cause of a bus accident which occurred the day before, May 6, on the A7 motorway, near Mornas.
According to information collected on the spot by the daily, a man would have boarded the bus during a stop.
As the vehicle was moving, he approached the driver to swerve.
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The bus then hit a roadbed.
Result: out of 35 passengers, 13 would be injured, including a baby.
The man reportedly fled after the accident.
About sixty firefighters intervened on the spot to come to the aid of the victims.
