In Seysses, near Toulouse, a municipal employee shoots his rifle, the gendarmes track him for four hours
A 50-year-old municipal employee, followed on the psychiatric plan, threatened his colleagues with a gun, before shooting. Nobody was injured but the gendarmes of Muret’s company and the GIGN antenna tracked him down for several hours. He was apprehended around 6 p.m.
A real manhunt took place this Tuesday, February 1 in the afternoon in the town of Seysses, south of Toulouse. For four hours, the gendarmes of the Muret company and the GIGN antenna tracked down a 50-year-old individual armed with a rifle and potentially very dangerous.
It all starts around 2 p.m. While three civil servants were working in the communal workshops of Seysses, one of their colleagues, although on leave, burst into the parking lot. This fifties, followed for psychiatric disorders, does not seem on his plate. He is angry and visibly drunk. More worrying: this municipal employee is armed with a shotgun. He will use it to shoot several times at bulky items stored against a wall in the workshops, before running away. Alerted by the victims, the soldiers immediately follow in his footsteps. When they arrive, they do not find him. Then the teams of the GIGN antenna in Toulouse locate it near Muret. One of their negotiators tries to calm the accused, while the surveillance and intervention squad of the gendarmerie (PSIG) challenges him.
This Tuesday evening, the shooter is still in custody. To understand this passage to the act, the public prosecutor appointed the continuation of the investigations to the research brigade of Muret. The mayor of the city, Jérôme Bouteloup gives his full support to the victims. A psychological unit is set up. “We will file a complaint against the suspect,” he said.