A man who had just committed a robbery at a service station in Seyssinet-Pariset, in Isère, died on Friday afternoon from his injuries after being shot by a gendarme, the prosecutor’s office said. Grenoble.
The facts took place around 5 p.m. in a Total station in the town, after the individual had “shot in the direction of the cashier” with a firearm, said in a press release the public prosecutor Eric Vaillant, confirming a information from Dauphine Libere.
A policeman shot the robber
“The gendarmes quickly arrived on the scene and one of them used his weapon, mortally wounding the robber”, indicated the magistrate who seized “the research section of the gendarmerie on this robbery with a weapon and , in parallel, the IGGN (note: the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie) on the use of weapons by the gendarme”.
The Dauphine Libere recounts that a witness who was outside the gas station heard three or four detonations. When he arrived there, he found a man lying there, with “a wound in the jaw” and “stains of blood on his T-shirt”.
The 63-year-old man was “transported to the University Hospital in a desperate state” and the gendarmes cordoned off the area.
Also according to the daily, the employee of the service station was not injured during the robbery.