PARIS (Reuters) - Police with sniffer dogs searched woods in southwestern France on Monday for a man who opened fire on officers responding to a domestic violence incident, officials said. Authorities said the suspect was a heavily armed former soldier who they believed was carrying a long-range hunting rifle. The 1,800 inhabitants of the village of Le Lardin-Saint-Lazare in the Dordogne were urged to stay at home and schools were closed as police helicopters circled in the sky. Police said the man went to his ex-partner s house around midnight Saturday into Sunday and threatened her new boyfriend. Officers then came under fire when they arrived at the scene. There were no reports of injuries. Hours go by, in-depth work continues. Our goal is to arrest this character without endangering the population, the Dordogne Prefect Federic Perissat told a news conference. This man is potentially very dangerous. He is armed, he said. Andre Petillot, the commander of the regional police force sai
LE LARDIN-SAINT-LAZARE, May 31 A massive manhunt for a former soldier who allegedly fired a hunting rifle at officers responding to a domestic violence dispute overnight in southwest France may last “many more hours”, gendarmes said late Sunday. Elite tactical units and around 300 gendarmes.
Police in southwestern France have detained a former soldier who fled into a forest after firing on security forces in an incident that sparked a massive manhunt, officials said.
Elite tactical teams and paramilitary police in France are searching for an ex-soldier who is on the run after firing at officers deployed to a domestic violence dispute.