The incident took place on May 14 in the town of Valmondois, north of Paris, where gendarmerie were called to deal with a disturbed and armed woman on the street.
Members of the Gendarmerie force are being congratulated for their courage after a woman in the northern town of Valmondois threatened to shoot them using a shotgun she carried.
Threatening to kill them “like dogs”, the woman did not realise that one officer was sneaking up a private garden to her side as colleagues attempted to de-escalate the situation.
He then bravely charged at the woman, tackling her to the ground before she could point her gun at him.
A shot did go off when the gun hit the ground, but police report that no one was injured in the incident, despite the cries of the woman as she was apprehended.
The policeman is seen approaching the woman at 0.50 seconds: