On Saturday evening in Saint-Jean-Pierre-Fixte, a town near Nogent-le-Rotrou in the Eure-et-Loir department, two gendarmes were seriously injured by gunfire. The officers had responded to a call near the D955 road to try to subdue an 82-year-old man who had barricaded himself in his garden. The elderly man opened fire on them, hitting both. Their lives are not in danger.
Surrender before 23 p.m.
The incident continued into the evening before the assailant surrendered to authorities shortly before 23 p.m. He was apprehended and hospitalized following his arrest. The man was then taken into custody on charges of attempted murder of law enforcement officers, a legal classification that reflects the seriousness of the alleged crimes.
The exact circumstances of the incident and the reasons that led the man to use a weapon against the police officers have not yet been clarified by the authorities. An investigation is underway to establish the precise sequence of events that occurred in this rural town in the department.
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