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 police fire, on the night of Friday April 1 to Saturday April 2, after he threatened them with a cutter during an intervention, according to the Grenoble prosecutor’s office. According to the first elements of the investigation, the soldiers were alerted by the parents of the victim for violence against them at the family home, in Pierre-Châtel, a town located south of 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.
Two open investigations
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, [ont fait] use of their pistol to protect themselves and stop their action”said prosecutor Eric Vaillant.
Touch “in the chest”, the man died on the spot. He 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.