Tag: gendarme
Death of Geneviève Grad: the actress and singer of “Gendarme de Saint-Tropez” lost to illness
The actress and singer Geneviève Grad died on the night of November 7 to 8, 2024 at the age of 80, following a long fight against illness. “Douliou-douliou-douliou Saint-Tropez, you…
These hateful messages sent to the widow of the gendarme Eric Comyn are now at the center of an investigation
Since her speech during the tribute to her husband, the widow of Eric Comyn, the police officer killed by a hit-and-run driver during a road check, has been facing insulting…
A69 project: several thousand activists gathered in Tarn, a gendarme injured after Molotov cocktail shots
Despite the authorities’ ban, several thousand demonstrators gathered on the future site of the A69 which will link Castres to Toulouse. Clashes broke out between the police and environmental activists.…
the OFB, a contested gendarme… and often sacrificed – L’Express
The French Biodiversity Office (OFB) rarely comes to light. The spotlight is often against one’s will, when the tension is maximum. The agricultural crisis confirmed this. In recent weeks, the…
In the Var, a man shot dead at his home by a gendarme: what happened?
During an intervention in a town in the Var, a man “armed with a knife” was fatally shot by a police officer. The shooter was taken into custody. The intervention…
the shadow of Gendarme Beltrame hangs over the trial of the Trèbes and Carcassonne attacks
The trial of the Trèbes and Carcassonne attacks opened this Monday, January 22. Seven people are being prosecuted for having provided, in one way or another, help to the killer…
Man killed by a gendarme in Isbergues: what we know
A gendarme killed, this Monday, July 31, 2023 in Isbergues (Pas-de-Calais), a man who was threatening. The Béthune public prosecutor’s office opened two investigations and announced at the end of…
Trial of ex-Rwandan gendarme tried in France for genocide: defense requests acquittal
The floor was this Tuesday, June 27 to the defense in the trial of Philippe Manier. The day before, the prosecution had requested life imprisonment against this former chief warrant…
A former Rwandan gendarme in front of French justice for genocide and crimes against humanity
Twenty-nine years after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the former chief warrant officer at the Nyanza gendarmerie Philippe Hategekimana, naturalized French in 2005 under the name of Philippe Manier, appears…
a gendarme sentenced to ten years in prison for the death of a demonstrator
A Guinean court on Monday (March 27) sentenced a gendarmerie non-commissioned officer to ten years in prison for the murder of a 19-year-old during protests on June 1, 2022 at…