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‘France killed my husband’ – the rising anger of the gendarmes

30 August 2024

8:26 PM

30 August 2024

8:26 PM

A gendarme was killed in France on Monday evening when a driver ran him over at a routine roadside checkpoint in Provence.

The driver of the BMW was an intoxicated 39-year-old from Cape Verde who during his time in France has racked up a lengthy criminal record including ten convictions, two for drunk driving.

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