2023-05-22 09:48:14
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, will go on Monday morning to the Roubaix police station, hard hit by the death of three young police officers on Sunday. “All my thoughts go out to the families of the victims to whom I send my condolences. Full support for the wounded,” had he reacted on Twitter.
“It is with deep sadness that we learn of the deaths in service of Manon, Steven and Paul”, also wrote the Alternative Police union. Sunday, four people, including three young police officers, died in a collision between a police vehicle and another car which, according to the first elements of the investigation, was driving in the wrong direction, near Villeneuve-d’Ascq (North) . Two passengers were also seriously injured in the crash.
“Volunteer and enthusiastic young police officers”
The deceased police officers are three officials from the Roubaix police station. Steven and Paul were 25 years old and Manon 24 years old, writes the police of the North.
“Everyone in the national police is very affected and touched” by these deaths “of young volunteer and enthusiastic police officers”, barely out of school, said the director general of the national police, Frédéric Veaux, stressing that the police officer killed , the youngest of the three agents, had not yet been established. “It’s a huge shock” for their colleagues, he added.
Steven was from Denain and the father of a one-year-old baby, reports The voice of the North. “It is with great sadness and emotion that I have just learned from the prefectural authorities that one of the Roubaix police officers who died in a road accident last night is a 25-year-old young man from Denais”, writes on her Facebook page the mayor of the city, Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini.
According to several media, Paul was expecting a child with his girlfriend.
An assistant commissioner from the Roubaix police station launched a kitty for the families of the victims on the Leetchi platform, which reached this morning at 9 a.m. more than 31,000 euros.
A fourth dead and two injured
In the accident, the driver of the other vehicle died. He was born in 1999, said Lille prosecutor Carole Étienne. The passenger who was with him, born in 2001, was transferred in absolute urgency to the Lille hospital center, Sunday evening his vital prognosis was engaged. The two passengers in the third vehicle “were known to the police and the justice system for common law acts”, said the prosecutor.
On the other hand, a “young girl” who was in the police vehicle was also transferred in “absolute urgency” to Lille. His vital prognosis was no longer engaged on Sunday evening. According to the prosecutor, the police accompanied their passenger to the hospital so that she was examined there as a “potential victim” of other facts. This is a 16 year old girl.
The prosecution has opened an investigation for homicide and involuntary injuries.
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