Six years after the events, the State was found responsible for this accident “due to the use by the police of devices involving exceptional risks”.
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The State was ordered by the administrative court of Poitiers on Thursday October 26 to pay nearly 282,000 euros to Samuel Maigre, a man injured by the shooting of a gendarme in February 2017, during a visit by President François Hollande to a railway site in Villognon (Charente). A national security sniper, responsible for securing the scene, accidentally hit him in the right foot.
This injury required several surgical operations for the man who was then working as a maître d’hôtel on a maintenance site for the Bordeaux-Paris TGV line. Six years after the events, the State was found responsible for this accident “due to the use by the police of devices involving exceptional risks”.
The State will also have to reimburse Health Insurance
The Poitiers administrative court notably retained the victim’s loss of professional earnings. Now aged 43, Samuel Maigre only returned to work in 2022 as a temporary order picker. This new job provides him with remuneration “very much inferior” to that which he perceived before the accident.
The State will also have to reimburse Health Insurance for the care of the victim, estimated at 294,000 euros.