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Eventually two French gendarmes spotted them through the undergrowth and walked, slowly, forwards.

At first the gendarmes declined to intervene and stood watching from the shore.

We counted eighteen French gendarmes watching them from the shore, declining to intervene.

For all the calls for greater security at schools, this crime took place literally under the noses of armed gendarmes.

"I had enough. I panicked," he told the court, apologising to the two gendarmes he had driven into in the tiny village of Vidaillat west of Clermont-Ferrand.