Police officer who died last week decorated posthumously

He is passed away last week in the performance of his duties, at the age of 39 years. A Nantes police officer, who succumbed to a heart attack on December 31, is to be decorated posthumously on Friday. On the occasion of a ceremony, he “will be elevated to the rank of brigadier-chief of police” and will be decorated with “the medal honor of the national police and the medal of act of courage and dedication”, indicates the prefecture of Loire-Atlantique.

The Minister Delegate for Citizenship Marlène Schiappa is due to go to Nantes this Friday to deliver a speech in tribute to this motorcyclist, father of a 5-year-old boy. Guest of
France Blue Loire Ocean this morning, she indicated that such a trip was systematically organized when a police officer or a gendarme dies.

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