After the shock of the attack, time for meditation. The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, chairs, Wednesday May 22, in Caen (Calvados), a ceremony of tribute to the two guards killed on May 14 in the attack on a prison van in Incarville (Eure). Follow our live stream.
An exchange with the families before the ceremony. The head of government meets the victims’ families at 11:15 a.m., away from the cameras, before the official time scheduled for noon at the former remand prison in Caen, the city where the two killed agents were based. Around fifty supervisors came from all over France to represent the profession.
Emmanuel Macron replaced at the last minute. The Head of State, who was to preside over the ceremony, but canceled his visit to go to Nouméa in response to the crisis in New Caledonia, met the families of the victims on Tuesday afternoon, before his departure, the executive said. Prison unions have expressed their “cruel disillusionment”estimating that the president could have postponed his trip for a few hours to be present in Caen.
The two supervisors decorated posthumously. Brigadier supervisor Arnaud Garcia and prison captain Fabrice Moello were posthumously made knights of the Legion of Honor, according to a decree published this Wednesday in the Official Journal. They died afterwards “15 years” And “29 years of service”according to the text signed by Emmanuel Macron.