The warrant officer killed during a refusal to comply in Mougins had been a police cadet in Le Mans

And policeman died, hit by a vehicle, Monday August 26, 2024, in Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes), after a refusal to comply.

The driver implicated was arrestedthe next day, Tuesday August 27, 2024.

“For over 30 years in the gendarmerie”

The victim, the adjutant Eric Comynwas 54 years old.

This father of two children, “had been engaged for more than 30 years in the gendarmerie as a non-commissioned officer”, indicated the Gendarmerie nationalein a press release.

At the Le Mans gendarmerie school

Born in Paris, Eric Comyn, after his military service in the Navy, had been admitted to the school of the non-commissioned officers from the gendarmerie to Mans (Sarthe), according to The Rise of the Gendarmerie.
He joined the force as a student gendarme on January 11, 1994.

He is due to retire in 2025.

Assigned in 1995 to the Meuse, until 1998, then to Haute-Saône, Eric Comyn joined the territorial brigade of Luc (Var), then the motorway platoon of Mandelieu-la-Napoule, in 2007, near Cannes.

Promoted to chief warrant officer in 2022 then warrant officer in 2024, this non-commissioned officer was due to retire in May 2025as a reservist.

Tributes were paid to him on Wednesday, August 28, particularly in Mandelieu-la-Napoule where he worked.

A kitty has been opened for the gendarme’s family.

A police officer killed in Le Mans in 2020

In Le Mans, a police officer, Eric Monroy, died, also during a refusal to comply, on August 5, 2020, on avenue Olivier-Heuzé.

The driver’s trial took place before the Sarthe Assize Court in September 2023.

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