“France killed my husband through its inadequacy, its laxity and its excess of tolerance,” declared the wife of the warrant officer, killed during a road check.
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The widow of Eric Comyn, a police officer killed in Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes) during a road check, is the target of insulting remarks on social networks which have triggered the opening of an investigation, franceinfo learned on Wednesday September 4 from the Draguignan prosecutor’s office in charge of the case, confirming information from AFP.
“I say it loud and clear, France killed my husband. (…) France killed my husband through its inadequacy, its laxity and its excess of tolerance.”had denounced Harmonie Comyn, the gendarme’s widow, on August 28, during a ceremony in Mandelieu-La Napoule, two days after the events. “Be careful, I’m not talking about foreigners, but about repeat offenders”she added.
The 39-year-old man who mowed down Warrant Officer Eric Comyn while trying to avoid a traffic stop in Mougins already had 10 convictions on his record and had been arrested twice for drunk driving and/or driving under the influence of drugs, according to the courts. He was charged and placed in pre-trial detention.
The attorney general of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal warned on Monday that the public prosecutor “would ensure that certain odious and unacceptable remarks made on the fringes of this tragedy are punished to the full extent of the identification of their authors”. “Freedom of expression is not a reason for judicial impunity on social networks” And “cannot be the false nose for the commission of crimes, the propagation of hatred of institutions and those who serve them or their relatives”added Franck Rastoul, without further details.
