This Friday, November 29, the Gard gendarmes celebrated Saint Geneviève, patron saint of gendarmes.
After mass, at the Sainte Jeanne D'Arc church, the gendarmes were received at the town hall of Nîmes for the official ceremony.
The head of the Gard gendarmerie group, Colonel Emmanuel Cassau, paid tribute to the gendarmes.
He recalled the values of the gendarmerie: unity, cohesion and unity.The gathering through the network of brigades and platoons, geographical, local, departmental and national cohesion. But also the cohesion between the active and the reservists of the gendarmerie. All this confirms the gendarmerie's presence in its territory. Finally the operational unit, the group in 2024 was engaged the events mobilized the troops: farmers' movement, the floods of March marked by research. On the judicial level, the clean-up operations largely mobilized the military. For example, the 18 kg of cocaine seized in Alès. Finally the Olympic Games blocked all the gendarmes during the summer who had no leave this summer. More than 18,000 gendarmes were engaged in Paris and its region with the national police.” Finally, the commander thanked his troops for their commitment, 44 of whom were injured in intervention during the year in the department.
Then Madame Marie-Charlotte Euvrard, Chief of Staff of the Prefect of Gard, also paid tribute to the defenders of citizen security.for their courage, unity and dedication“.
The audience, made up of elected officials, judicial, administrative and military authorities, were then able to share a friendly drink in the town hall.
