An elite tactical unit was deployed to disarm an 82-year-old man after his wife called the police
An 82-year-old retired craftsman opened fire on French gendarmes after declaring that a revolution was underway and insisting that President Emmanuel Macron had been deposed, local media have reported.
The incident took place on Saturday, when the elderly man’s wife called police to report that her husband had taken a hunting rifle and gone into the garden, convinced that the French government had fallen.
France’s elite GIGN police tactical unit was deployed to disarm the retiree. When five gendarmes arrived at the property near Nogent-le-Rotrou in north-central France, the former craftsman reportedly declared that “it’s a revolution” and that “Macron has been deposed” before opening fire.
Guided by one of the man’s daughters, the gendarmes found the self-styled revolutionary hiding behind a cedar tree with a rifle in his hands.
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