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Lilian Dejean will be decorated with the Legion of Honor, posthumously, as a knight. He had been killed by trying to prevent the author of a road accident from fleeing, on September 8, 2024, in Grenoble.
On September 8, 2024, Lilian Dejean, municipal agent, attached to the urban cleanliness department of the city of Grenoble witnessed a road accident. While the author tries to flee, Lilian Dejean intervenes. The driver then leaves the vehicle and shoots the agent, which collapses, touched with a bullet in the thorax. The latter will die a few hours later.
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The death of this Grenoble father had moved the whole of France. Almost 8 months later, France will decorate it with the Legion of Honor posthumously for “30 years of service, who died in the exercise of its functions”, can be read in the Official Journal published this Tuesday, April 29.
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