2024-02-12 18:55:00
The police and emergency services intervened urgently this Monday, February 12, 2024 in the town of Sainte-Marie-la-Mer to secure the area near the municipal cemetery.
The alert was given this Monday around 5 p.m. in the town of Sainte-Marie. According to initial information, a 65-year-old resident of the village lost his footing, was suffering from a health problem, went out in front of his home with a weapon in his hands and then locked himself in his home. Although no shots were fired or anyone threatened, a major device was immediately deployed in the cemetery area. The firefighters, the Samu services, the municipal police but also more than twenty gendarmes from the Psig (surveillance and intervention platoon) Saber from Rivesaltes and Pollestres as well as the brigades from Canet and Saint-Cyprien been mobilized.
A security perimeter was set up and the neighborhood was cordoned off around Chemin des Clauses, while a negotiator was called to the scene to establish contact with the person concerned. After almost two hours of intervention, the retiree was finally arrested and immediately taken into care to be evacuated to an emergency service.
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