Gérald Darmanin announced Saturday the death of a gendarme very seriously injured on March 15 in the explosion of a house in the Allier, caused by a man he had just arrested with two of his colleagues, also injured during the intervention. In a tweet, the Minister of the Interior expressed his "deep sadness at the announcement of the death, today, of the gendarme whose vital prognosis was engaged following a dramatic intervention in the Allier on March 15".


Deep sadness at the announcement of the death, today, of the gendarme whose vital prognosis was engaged following a dramatic intervention in the Allier on March 15.
I extend my condolences to his family, loved ones and comrades. https://t.co/hBpoWQhtCc

— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) April 22, 2023

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That day, in La Chapelle (Allier), Loïc Jeansanetas and two other gendarmes of the surveillance and intervention platoon of the gendarmerie (PSIG) of Vichy, had intervened in reinforcement of four of their colleagues to arrest a man, placed under electronic bracelet, convicted ten times for domestic violence. The three PSIG gendarmes were very seriously injured in the explosion of the suspect's house, who had died in the fire.

A "stalker"

The first investigations had confirmed "the thesis of a suicidal gesture with the will to kill gendarmes simultaneously", had explained two days after the tragedy the prosecutor Eric Neveu, speaking of a "stalker" handed to the gendarmes. Loïc Jeansanetas had been "burned at 90%, his comrades at 40% for one and 20% for the other," Darmanin said in a statement.

"Transferred, urgently, to the burn department of the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon, Loïc Jeansanetas had been admitted with a vital prognosis engaged," recalled the minister. Aged 27, Loïc Jeansanetas, who was in a civil partnership and was going to be the father of his first child, died Saturday in the middle of the afternoon.

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