Meuse gendarmerie shooting of armed man in Stenay, Digi Mart USA News (Stenay, Meuse, France): A tragedy occurred on Sunday in a village in the northern part of the Meuse department in France. A man carrying a saber in a public place and threatening his neighbors in Stenay died after a gendarmerie intervention.
When officers were alerted in the morning and went to the man’s home, he was holding a bladed weapon and struck one gendarme. At least one gendarme then fired their weapon, but the man retreated inside his home.
When gendarmes entered the residence in the mid-afternoon, they found him dead. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death, which initial observations did not definitively attribute to the gunfire.
The Verdun prosecutor’s office has jurisdiction over the case.
