Three gendarmes were injured in the explosion. scorcom / stock.adobe.com
NARRATIVE – Died in the explosion of his house, the 38-year-old man had set a trap for the soldiers who came to arrest him. The vital prognosis of one of them was still engaged this Friday.
Wednesday, Christophe B, 38, died in the explosion of his house in La Chapelle, a small town in Allier. A breath provoked voluntarily when the gendarmes arrived at his home. Three of the seven soldiers who came to arrest him that day were seriously injured. “I’m not afraid to burn out, but you will burn out too“, he announced in a video posted a few hours earlier on social networks.
Two days after the tragedy, the premeditation is no longer in doubt. Christophe B. had a double objective: to kill himself and to drag into death these gendarmes who embodied, in his eyes, this justice he hated. Convicted several times, in particular for acts of driving under the influence of drugs or acts of violence, this former unemployed mechanic accused the courts of “to ruin his lifeand especially to prevent him from approaching his son. Separated from his partner for several years, he had not seen his son for 6 years, after…
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