He was already known to the police.
A 22-year-old man was sentenced Monday in immediate appearance, in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), to two years in prison for fireworks mortar fire on December 24 at a gendarmerie.
The defendant was also revoked a suspension with probation of four months, said the prosecutor of the Republic of Le Havre, Bruno Dieudonné.
The court condemned this man for "willful violence with repeated weapons and attempted voluntary destruction of the gendarmerie by an explosive substance", following the shooting at the gendarmerie.
However, he released him for attempting to damage a gendarme's vehicle.
The gunman standing in the car
On December 24, the gendarmerie had been targeted by “at least two mortar fire” fireworks, while a vehicle passed in front of the barracks of mobile gendarmes in the Le Havre district of Caucriauville with three individuals on board, one of whom had left by the sunroof, explained Thursday the deputy prosecutor of Le Havre, Cyrille Fournier.
A thirty-year-old gendarme who was leaving the barracks with his wife in a vehicle in civilian clothes, at the time of the shooting, lodged a complaint, added the deputy prosecutor.
“According to the statements of the gendarme, the gunman aimed at the vehicle but without the mortar leaving.
The gendarme said that a mortar passed over the vehicle but the video recording did not allow it to be verified, ”the magistrate also indicated.
These pyrotechnic devices are often used by horizontal shots against the police during urban violence.
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The vehicle from which the shots started had been identified and the driver had been taken into custody on December 29, according to the prosecution.
The other two occupants of the vehicle have not been identified at this stage "but the investigation is continuing", according to the prosecutor.
these pyrotechnic devices are more and more often used in a roundabout way by horizontal shots against the police during urban violence.
