Course Pursuit The gendarmerie deployed major resources on Wednesday to arrest a man in the north of Vendée
The chase took place between Barre-de-Monts and Challans on Wednesday (illustration). — N. Tucat/AFP
The gendarmes followed him to the trace. An armed man has been arrested Wednesday afternoon at; Challans, in the north of Vendée, after a chase lasting several hours over about twenty kilometers. The concern of the authorities began around noon when an individual threatening to relatives is reported; in possession of a gun in the town of La Barre-de-Monts. About fifty gendarmes were then mobilized to intercept him, reports Ouest-France.
But the suspect, aged about thirty years old, manages to continue on your way through Saint-Gervais and Sallertaine. Spotted again around 5 p.m., he drove his vehicle towards a police roadblock in a commercial area of Challans. Gunshots are heard. The man will eventually be arrested. and mastered in front of the supermarket E.Leclerc. No one has been injured. It has been placed on guard at; view.