Shocking Night: Médoc Resident Shares Experience of Gendarmes’ Intervention – Published Without Apology

He talks about a “big blunder”. A resident of Médoc says that he is still in shock after a strong intervention by the gendarmes at his house, on the night of May 10, 2024. “I was naturally sleeping in my home, more precisely on the couch in the living room,” says the forty-year-old.

“Around 3 a.m., two gendarmes entered the private building, closed by the gate, and began …

He talks about a “big blunder”. A resident of Médoc says that he is still in shock after a strong intervention by the gendarmes at his house, on the night of May 10, 2024. “I was naturally sleeping in my home, more precisely on the couch in the living room,” says the forty-year-old.

“Around 3 am, two gendarmes entered the private building, closed by the gate, and started banging like deaf men on my bay window. They asked me to open immediately and said they would not leave.”

This is his sad feeling about the situation. But if we look at it from the point of view of the gendarmes, the context is completely different.”

Published without apology

So the Médoc willingly surrendered. “The two boys jumped on me, grabbed me violently, went out to my terrace, put me in an armlock, pinned me to the ground and handcuffed me.” The man says that he stayed like this for several minutes, in pain, until an older man came. “Then they let me out and they all left, without an apology, leaving me brutal. “

This is his sad feeling about the situation. But if we look at it from the perspective of the police, the context is completely different. In fact, a neighbor of the forty-year-old man called them at night. He had just seen someone break into the house next door by breaking the bedroom window.

So he reported a burglary in progress. So a watchman came quickly, sure that he had found the thief. “Actually, I was at a party the other day,” explained the forty-year-old woman. “I had been drinking a bit, so I didn’t want to take the car. I walked home with my dog.”

Misunderstanding

“But when I arrived, I realized I had left my papers and house keys in the car. I didn’t want to do 5 destinations in the opposite direction. So I broke the bedroom window and because there was broken glass on the bed, I went to bed in the living room.”

Hence the misunderstanding. “But it wasn’t a burglary,” repeated the Médocain. He struggles to consider the facts from the point of view of the gendarmes, who were then able to interpret his protests and his movements to struggle as anger and rebellion.

“I told them who I was.” Because he had nothing to prove it. It was necessary to wait until the arrival of another gendarme who had been heard in another procedure to formally identify and free the Médocain. And this is not the first time that an intruder has surprised him in a home pretending to be at home or creating an excuse to justify his presence. A man tried for robbery recently by the Criminal Court of Bordeaux for example, he said he was going on a date with a married woman whose name he wanted to keep quiet and that he got the wrong address.

“The way they do things is a scandal,” he asks the forty-year-old man who is known to have “fragile courage after depression. ” He contacted the Inspector General of the National Gendarmerie, the gendarme of the gendarmes and the defender of rights. His complaint for violence by a person with public authority will be sent to the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office which will decide on the appropriateness of the charge.