US EditionNew Caledonia: a Gendarme Charged After the Death of a Young Man, Shot
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On Thursday evening, a patrol intervened during a rixe in Plum, south of Nouméa. The gendarme who fatally touched a resident claims not to have seen it, which witnesses deny.
The gendarme explained his shot by the fact that he felt "immediately dangerous," a version contradicted by the witnesses.
The officer, who had used his firearm during the operation, was placed as an assisted witness.
A 32-year-old man, Fara Tournier, died after an intervention by the gendarmes in Plum (Mont-Dore), near Nouméa. A soldier was placed under the status of a witness assisted in an investigation for voluntary violence resulting in death. The events in Plum Thursday evening, according to the information of La Provence, a...
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