A minute of silence will be observed in all police stations, gendarmerie brigades and prefectures in France.
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A national tribute, chaired by the resigning Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, will be paid on Monday, September 2 in Nice to the gendarme Eric Comyn, fatally injured by a repeat offender in the Alpes-Maritimes during a road check, franceinfo learned from the Ministry of the Interior. The ceremony will be held from 3:35 p.m. in the Ausseur barracks, where the department command is located.
Gérald Darmanin will deliver a speech and a minute of silence will be observed in all police stations, gendarmerie brigades and prefectures in France, reports France Bleu Azur. The ceremony will not be open to the public, but the gendarmerie is planning a gathering 2 kilometers from the barracks, on avenue Simone-Veil, in front of which the funeral procession will pass between 2:30 p.m. and 3:15 p.m.
During a ceremony in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, where the motorized platoon to which her husband belonged was based, Harmonie Comyn accused “France” to have “killed [son] husband by his inadequacy, his laxity and his excess of tolerance”The tragedy occurred around 8:40 p.m. on Monday, August 26, when a person in a black BMW refused to be stopped, according to the gendarmerie. The vehicle violently hit Eric Comyn while he and his colleagues were carrying out a routine traffic check at an exit ramp of the A8 motorway. A warrant officer in the motorized gendarmerie platoon, he was 54 years old and the father of two children.
Arrested in Cannes during the night, the 39-year-old suspect had a positive blood alcohol level. He was brought before an investigating judge, charged, in particular, with “murder of a person in authority”, and placed in pre-trial detention. He already has 10 convictions on his criminal record and has been arrested twice for driving while intoxicated and/or under the influence of drugs. The accused “claims to have hit the police officer unintentionally and, in a panic, to have left the scene”according to the Grasse public prosecutor’s office.
