Four helicopters have been deployed in the search for the suspect AFP/Diarmid COURREGESLE LARDIN-SAINT-LAZARE, France: Police backed by helicopters hunted on Sunday for a heavily armed former soldier who had allegedly opened fire on officers responding to a domestic violence dispute in southwestern France.
"We have been able to locate him in an area of around 4km to 5km but it's a wooded area, difficult to access," she said. Andre Petillot, commander of the regional police force, said the suspect was"someone who knows the area well and adapts easily"."Contact had been established several times ... but was followed by gunfire. Each time there was contact with him, he's opened fire," Petillot said, adding that police were not firing back.He is believed to be armed with a Winchester 30-30 hunting rifle, which is often used in the region to hunt boar, the source said.
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