The police bereaved this Saturday. A GIGN gendarme was shot and killed in Guyana while participating in an operation to combat illegal gold panning, we learned on Saturday from a source familiar with the matter, confirming information from the Actu17 site.
The 35-year-old soldier was in operation on the Dorlin gold panning site, in the center of this overseas territory, where this illegal activity is a source of significant pollution, said this source.
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