“It’s them who die because they protect us”: Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin came to pay tribute on Monday morning to the three young police officers who died on Sunday morning in a terrible road accident near Lille (North), and support their colleagues at the Roubaix police station. He announced a national tribute “at the end of the week”.
A ceremony will take place in Roubaix and, at the same time, “a national tribute has been decreed by the President of the Republic” so that “in all police stations in France, in all gendarmerie brigades, in all prefectures and sub-prefectures and for those who wish in all the town halls of France we can have a thought for these three young police officers whose life was in front of them ”.
“It’s a collapse for the entire national police”, he continued, “but also for all of Roubaix and all of the North”, from which the three police officers, aged 24 to 25, were from.
“No fault committed by the police”, according to Gérald Darmanin
The three officials, two men and a woman members of a Police Rescue crew, died on Sunday morning around 7 a.m. in a collision between their vehicle and a car which, according to the first elements of the investigation, was traveling in the wrong direction. , in Villeneuve-d’Ascq.
The driver of the other vehicle involved, born in 1999, also died, while a passenger in this car, born in 2001, and a young girl in the police vehicle were seriously injured. “To our knowledge, there was no fault committed by the police,” said the Minister of the Interior. The public prosecutor will hold a press conference on Monday afternoon.
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