A woman in her forties, captain of the gendarmerie of the Hérault group set herself on fire in her car in a car park in the Celleneuve district of Montpellier on Wednesday late afternoon.
Those are witnesses who saw the car in flames intervened first, before the firefighters arrived. She was transported in absolute urgency to the severe burns department of the Montpellier University Hospital. She was between life and death.
An investigation is opened.