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Police Ambush, Garage Shooting, and Sainte‑Soline Grenade Videos Trigger Separate Judicial Moves in France

Investigators are pursuing the shooters, weighing a claimed self‑defense shooting, and shifting contested grenade launches to a judge for deeper scrutiny.

Overview

  • In Castres on December 3, masked assailants fired carbines at patrolling officers, lightly injuring three with lead fragments before fleeing by car.
  • An inquiry for attempted homicide of public officials is under way with specialized national units co‑seized, following earlier gunfire reported in the same neighborhood.
  • In Isère, a 53‑year‑old garage owner who shot at four intruders was placed under formal investigation for aggravated violence and put under judicial control as the self‑defense claim is examined.
  • Prosecutors also opened two in‑flagrante procedures for aggravated burglary and for violence with a weapon; two alleged intruders were wounded, including a 15‑year‑old struck in the upper body.
  • In the Sainte‑Soline dossier, the Rennes prosecutor closed complaints over injuries to four demonstrators and non‑assistance but opened a judge‑led probe into non‑conforming ‘tirs tendus’ captured on body‑cam videos that could constitute voluntary violence.