“It could have had more serious consequences,” said an investigator. A police patrol was threatened by an armed individual on Saturday evening in Rezé. Around 10:30 p.m., the national police were called upon to intervene in a vehicle fire.
rue du Vert Praud, close to the Océane shopping center. The police were assessing the damage on the spot when a man approached them, as some onlookers sometimes do. Except that he brandished a handgun in the direction of the officials.
They then had the reflex to take out their electric pulse gun (Taser) and sent a shock to subdue, then challenge the individual.
The weapon was, in fact, a dummy pistol, harmless. The assailant, who was drunk, was taken into police custody. The motive for his gesture is not determined.