In Nice, France honors the memory of gendarme Éric Comyn

The Figaro Nice

The notes of the Republican Guard punctuated by violent claps of thunder accompanied the coffin of Warrant Officer Eric Comyn on Monday afternoon, during a poignant national tribute paid in Nice, in the barracks of the Alpes-Maritimes group. « We are in a painful moment and we feel like the sky is crying with us. »reacted Marie-Laure Pezant, the spokesperson for the national gendarmerie, at the end of a ceremony suddenly plunged into darkness, under pouring rain.

A week after the brutal death of gendarme Éric Comyn, 54, hit by a reckless driver who refused to comply, the resigning Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, presided over this ceremony, in the presence of many local elected officials, the soldier’s brothers in arms and his family, his wife Harmonie Comyn and his two children aged 12 and 16, for whom it was supposed to be a simple first day back at school.

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