A forty-year-old man, who was hiding in his house and showing “threatening” behavior, was shot and killed by police in Blainville-sur-Orne (Calvados), Caen prosecutors announced on Thursday.
At around 6:30 a.m. Thursday, Caen police were called to Blainville-sur-Orne where a man “whose condition required medical treatment, was exhibiting dangerous behavior,” Caen public prosecutor Joël Garrigue said in a press release, confirming information from Ouest-France.
After trying to talk and “recalling this man’s threatening behavior”, soldiers entered his home to arrest him. “When police asked him several times to leave the room where he had locked himself, the man advanced towards them, at close range, brandishing a knife,” according to the judge.
Encountered this behavior, “two police officers opened fire and wounded him in the stomach,” according to prosecutors. Cared for by Samu who was at the location, the man died at the end of the morning. An investigation was entrusted to the Research Section (SR) of the Caen gendarmerie into the behavior of this individual.
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A second investigation is being carried out by the Inspectorate General of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) into the use of weapons by the police.
