The "legitimate defense" benefits the gendarme who injured two men at the end of an alcohol evening in Pontivy

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The Rennes Court of Appeal released on Tuesday 25 March 2025 a mobile gendarme who was accused of having committed serious violence against two men while he was out of an evening in a bar in Pontivy, Morbihan, in December 2021.

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On Tuesday 25 March 2025, the Court of Appeal of Rennes released a mobile gendarme, accused of violence against two men at the exit of a bar in Pontivy (Morbihan) in 2021. Maxence, mobile gendarme de l'Escadron (EGM) 13/3 de Pontivy, had appealed his sentence to three months' suspended prison by the Lorient Correctional Court. At first instance, he had also obtained the non-registration of the sentence on the part of the criminal record accessib…