Monday, in Sarnois, in the Oise, the GIGN intervened for a police officer who had entrenched himself at his home. The official died in the night from Monday to Tuesday after being injured with his service weapon, we learned from the gendarmes and the prosecution.
Monday, around 9 am, “the emergency services were called by a man in his forties”, a police officer at the borders of the Oise, who “made suicidal remarks”. He had “entrenched himself in the home where he lived alone”, indicated the prefecture of Oise and the parquet of Beauvais.
The GIGN discovers the policeman alive but injured
He threatened to “open fire” in the event of “intervention by the police or help near his house”. The gendarmes “immediately went there and set up a security perimeter”, explained the prosecution and the prefecture. “The various attempts to make contact during the day with the individual concerned turned out to be in vain”, consequently “the intervention of the intervention group of the national gendarmerie (GIGN) was requested at the end of the day. -midday “.
After entering the home “the gendarmes noted, around 8:30 pm, that the person concerned was injured with his service weapon, probably long before the intervention of the GIGN”, according to the press release. “He was still alive despite the fact that he was shot and wounded,” the gendarmerie told AFP. The death “was noted in the night of Monday to Tuesday”, according to this source.