Colonel Emmanuel Casso and Lieutenant-Colonel Christophe Capsié were officially installed in their new functions this Tuesday afternoon at Pont-du-Gard in the presence of the commander of the Occitanie gendarmerie region, General Thibaut Lagrange and the deputy prefect Émile Soumbo.
As tradition dictates, the installations of Colonel Casso at the head of the Gard gendarmerie group and Lieutenant-Colonel Capsié at the head of the Nîmes Research Section were held on the occasion of a taking of arms , in the presence of gendarmes from all over the department. All at the foot of the Pont du Gard, and under unexpected sunshine given the weather of the last few hours.
General Lagrange during the ceremony • Photo : Thierry Allard
A ceremony “which reminds us of our attachment to the armies, our anchoring in military traditions”said the general, aware that this ceremony was coming “Consecrate a very strong moment” Careers of the two grades.
Lieutenant-Colonel Capsié was installed at the head of the Nîmes Research Section this Tuesday • Photo : Thierry Allard
The first of them, Colonel Casso, graduated from Saint-Cyr then the military school, passed through Corsica, the central administration and even Reunion, is now at the head of the Gard gendarmes since this summer. “It’s a committed, seasoned staff”General Lagrange said of him, after presenting him with the insignia of knight of the Legion of Honor.
Colonel Casso received the insignia of knight of the Legion of Honor this Tuesday • Photo : Thierry Allard
Lieutenant-Colonel Capsié, who started at the dawn of the third millennium within the cavalry, went through the Limoges Research Section then through various offices, notably that of the fight against illegal work. It is then “Go see the gendarmerie from the outside”in the general’s words, by becoming a magistrate from 2019 to 2024, then taking the head of the Nîmes Research Section.
Colonel Casso, General Lagrange and Lieutenant-Colonel Capsié, this Tuesday at the Pont du Gard • Photo : Thierry Allard
Appointments which are “a great testimony of confidence and is an extension of your already rich careers”will tell them General Lagrange. New functions “Demanding, exhilarating”he continues, “in an often tense, sometimes hostile and violent environment”a context that requires two officers “a permanent posture of adaptation and agility. » Without forgetting, adds the boss of the Occitanie gendarmes to the attention of the colonel and the lieutenant-colonel, “to keep at the center of your concerns the quality of service that we provide to our fellow citizens. »
