INFO THE DEPECHE. Lot: the RAID intervenes in Cahors and arrests an individual who tried to strangle his wife

the essential The RAID intervened this Sunday at the beginning of the afternoon rue de l’Université, in Cahors, to arrest a man entrenched in his apartment. At the origin of this alert, the call of a neighbor at 10:50 this Sunday morning. The suspect has just been arrested. What we know. Domestic violence is at the origin of the arrival of the RAID, this Sunday in Cahors. A neighbor says. “I was smoking a cigarette and drinking coffee during my break from work when I saw a woman arrive, she had blood everywhere, a wound on one leg, bruises all over her body and marks of strangulation. She said to me: “Quick, quickly call 18 because my husband tried to strangle me”. The woman explains that she was the victim of domestic violence. Without thinking, the local resident complies: she calls firefighters and gives the phone to the victim so that he can communicate directly with them. The emergency services arrive and take care of him. The national police then intervenes rue de l’Université to arrest the suspect. But quickly, the police understand that they are facing a threatening and dangerous individual who does not carry a weapon on him but who could potentially possess one. The police decide to call in the Toulouse RAID. At the start of the afternoon, about fifteen men of the RAID are then mobilized ru and from the university. The negotiations will last nearly two hours with the individual. Until, around 4 p.m., the 45-year-old suspect was finally arrested by the RAID team. According to our information, the arrest caused no injuries. For his part, Alexandre Rossi, the Lot prosecutor confirms “ongoing investigations, in particular a search which will have to determine whether the individual was armed or not”. He adds: “This individual, a former soldier, has already been sentenced for acts of aggravated violence recently”. The firefighters remained stationed on the boulevard, and were called in support, as a precaution. The perimeter was cordoned off in this street located parallel to the main boulevard of Cahors, a hundred meters from the famous Place Gambetta.