The victim, alcoholic, had previously tried to kill his parents with a pruning hook.
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A 49-year-old man was killed by gunfire from the gendarmes after he threatened them with a cutter during an intervention, reports the Grenoble prosecutor’s office on Saturday April 2. According to the first elements of the investigation, the soldiers were alerted by the parents of the victim, on the night of Friday to Saturday, for violence exerted against them at the family home, in Pierre-Châtel, a town located south of from Grenoble.
Their 49-year-old alcoholic son had tried to kill them with a billhook. Disarmed by his brother also living there, he threatened the family to return with an axe, according to the same source. On the spot, the gendarmes found the father and the mother barricaded in the house with their second son, the attacker hiding in the garage in the basement of the villa. While the soldiers were in front of the main door, the individual came out through another and walked towards them brandishing a box cutter. “Despite several warnings to drop his weapon, the individual continued to advance towards the soldiers who, with their backs to a fence and unable to retreat, used their pistol to protect themselves and stop their action. They each fired at least one cartridge and hit the individual in the chest”said prosecutor Eric Vaillant.
The man, who died on the spot, was unfavorably known to the gendarmerie and justice services, in particular for aggravated violence, outrage, degradation. The Grenoble public prosecutor’s office has opened two investigations, one into the attack committed by the deceased man against his parents, the other into the shootings of the gendarmes.