A soldier from the Hyères gendarmerie company accidentally killed herself with her service weapon. The facts occurred on Thursday, September 23, 2021. The 35-year-old house marshal died on Tuesday September 28 from her injuries at the Sainte-Anne military hospital in Toulon. If the service accident is beyond doubt, a judicial inquiry, entrusted to the Research Section of Marseille, is opened to determine precisely the circumstances of the death.
On Thursday, September 23, 2021, the company commander’s secretary returned from a mission with a colleague. Before leaving for lunch, the gendarmes must change and put away their weapons. They each spend their turn in the vault dedicated to weapons. A detonation occurs while the maréchale des logis-chef is alone in the room. A bullet would have gone when the soldier put down her weapon in the rack.
Hit in the chest by a 9mm bullet, the young woman was seriously injured. His colleagues give him first aid. She is transferred to theSainte-Anne military hospital of Toulon, where she was operated on and where she died on Tuesday, September 28 as a result of her injuries.
A ceremony military was organized this Friday in his honor in Hyères. His religious funeral takes place this Saturday in the Gard. Aged 35, she was married to a policeman from Var and was the mother of a 10-month-old baby.
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