13:32: The suspect was arrested
He had fled on foot just after the assault. 80 gendarmes, including the GIGN branch in Nantes, were deployed to find the perpetrator, as well as two helicopters, three dog teams and a squadron of mobile gendarmes. The research section of the Nantes gendarmerie is responsible for the investigation.
In addition, according to our information, a team from the “national” GIGN (based in Satory in the Yvelines) was called in as reinforcement.
#LaChapelleSurEorder 🚨 Significant resources have been mobilized to find the man suspected of the attack on a municipal policewoman.
➡ Individual questioned by #gendarmes
Support for the police officer injured during the attack and the gendarmes injured during the intervention. pic.twitter.com/1Xn2Era9ZG– National Gendarmerie (@Gendarmerie) May 28, 2021
The Gendarmes neutralized the individual suspected of the knife attack of the municipal policewoman of Chapelle-sur-Erdre. Thank you to them and thoughts for the gendarmes injured during this arrest.
– Gerald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) May 28, 2021
All the surrounding schools have been secured, according to the gendarmerie. “Children are confined to schools and colleges in the city,” confirmed a city official