A man aged about 40 was shot by gendarmes this afternoon in the area of the Mornas rest area on the A7 motorway. He had been wanted since last night following a bus accident that occurred on the same motorway, in which 14 passengers were slightly injured.
The man was on the BlaBlaCar bus that was going to Lyon. At the height of Mornas, the man tried to take the bus driver’s wheel, which caused the accident. The gendarmes tracked down the passenger who had caused the accident and had just fled. A search for the person was conducted in the area throughout the night.
On Sunday, two soldiers saw a man jump out of the bushes. The man, armed with an iron bar and a knife, attacked the policemen shouting “Allah Akbar”. Despite the request, the man did not drop his weapons and forced the police to fire in his direction. The man was hit in the stomach and treated in serious condition.
His motives are currently unknown. La Provence