La Riche, near Tours – This Tuesday, Tours police arrested a 65-year-old man in La Riche, suspecting him of having injured a Hérault gendarme during the summer in Murviel-les-Béziers.
The incident began with an argument between neighbors, which led to a series of homemade traps set up by the man in his second home.
The man in question, a 65-year-old from Tours, was spending his vacation in his second home in Murviel-les-Béziers when the dispute with his neighbors broke out. The police were called to intervene, discovering that the house was booby-trapped. During the intervention, one of the gendarmes was injured in the thigh by a 9 mm caliber projectile, reports France Blue.
As a precaution, the bomb squad was called, and they discovered a second trap linked to a firearm, ready to cause serious injuries to the torso according to investigators.
The man was finally arrested this Tuesday in La Riche, near Tours. During the search of his home, the police discovered two weapons. One of them was used in the incident in Murviel-les-Béziers, while the other was a hunting rifle that the man claims to have won at a funfair 30 years ago .
The police seized the weapons and the suspect will have to appear before the Tours court in the coming months to answer for his actions.
2023-09-21 17:08:18
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