2023-09-18 07:22:57
By radio, the quartermaster Marcel Morue reports that he is going immediately to Colruyt. Four minutes is enough to reach the parking lot surrounding the store. At 1:30 a.m., the patrol announced that they were in the area. Everything then happens very quickly. The rest of the story is told by Jean-Marie Lacroix, the surviving gendarme, a few hours following the events on his hospital bed: “When we arrived we didn’t see anything, we went around the store with the high beams on, passing by the gas station. Along the wall of the store, at the back, we saw two parked cars, the one before the door giving access to the store, the other following the door, the latter car, being a white Mercedes with the trunk open. We also, at this time, noticed the store door which was sheared underneath. We are We came out from each side of the van, weapon in hand, Marcel Morue had the UZI submachine gun. In fact, when we arrived there, we were shot at by the thieves, the shots coming from the door which had been sheared . When I got off, I was the driver, I noticed an individual in front of us, the others were hidden behind the broken door.
And the gendarme and his colleague responded. Quickly, the exchange turns once morest them : “I then moved towards the rear of the vehicle to go around it and reach Marcel Morue, I backed away while pulling. When I got closer to him, he slumped on his back in front of me. I I was then dropped sideways into the van, my chest leaning forward between the conveyor seat and the dashboard, my feet on the ground.
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