Near Toulouse. Very agitated, he threatens the gendarmes with a knife and a glass bottle
Through Gabriel Kenedi
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The gendarmes of the Toulouse-Le Mirail company experienced a turbulent intervention on the side of Plaisance du Touch (Haute-Garonne), town located west of the Pink City, Tuesday February 8, 2022.
A man who had no business there
Around 9 p.m., they are called by a wife for a family dispute. She asks them to come to her home as her husband is in a very agitated state.
The family is rather known to the military, and for good reason: since July 2021, this is the fifth time that the gendarmes, for various reasons, have to travel to their homes.
When they arrive on the spot, the gendarmes have a mission: to arrest the companion of thought, who has recently been the subject of a publication ban in Plaisance-du-Touch and which has also forbidden to contact his wife.
He threatens the cops
Far from calming down at the sight of the soldiers, the man – who is in his fifties – manages to sneak into the kitchen and then grabbed a knife in one hand, and a glass bottle in the other.
He then began to threaten the gendarmes present, pulling out a taser in order to protect themselves. Eventually they won’t need to use it.
Taking advantage of a furtive moment of inattention, one of the soldiers then throws himself on the threatening individual and manages not without difficulty to master it.
Six months in prison
The story does not end there. Arrested and taken into custodythe man was tried in the context of an immediate comparison, Thursday, February 10, in Toulouse.
The judicial response was firm, since the man was sentenced to six months in prison : four months for the associated violence against the gendarmes (which did not lead to a total interruption of work), and two firm months for non-compliance with the injunction which had been made not to come into contact with the victim.
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