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Interior Minister Rules Out IGPN Probe After Auch Standoff as Paris Metro Knife Suspect Held in Psychiatric Care

Officials say officers acted within legal rules after perceiving a threat from the tractor.

« Une ligne rouge a été franchie », dénonce la Coordination Rurale du Gers, après qu'un jeune agriculteur se fasse braquer par des policiers lors d'une manifestation d'agriculteurs à Auch (32).
Une pancarte "stop au massacre" brandie le 19 décembre 2025 lors d'un rassemblement d'agriculteurs, à Carbonne, en Haute-Garonne.
La colère des agriculteurs, après l’interpellation de l’un des leurs le samedi 27 décembre, à Auch, dans le Gers. Plusieurs policiers ont braqué leurs armes sur un homme conduisant un tracteur. "Une ligne rouge a été franchie", selon la Coordination rurale qui annonce saisir l’IGPN.
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Overview

  • In Auch, CRS briefly pointed their weapons at a tractor during a protest over the dermatose nodulaire response before arresting the driver, who was released a few hours later.
  • Laurent Nuñez said he will not refer the case to the IGPN, and the Auch prosecutor stated no inquiry would be opened at her initiative because the intervention met legal standards.
  • The Coordination Rurale filed an online referral and demanded official apologies, but the IGPN will not act without a mandate from the Interior Ministry or the judiciary.
  • In Paris, three women sustained non‑life‑threatening injuries in knife attacks on Metro Line 3, and police arrested a 25‑year‑old Malian under an OQTF after tracing him via CCTV and phone data to his home in Sarcelles.
  • The suspect’s police custody was lifted for psychiatric reasons and he was hospitalized, pausing questioning as the transport security unit pursues an attempted‑homicide investigation.