Chief Warrant Officer Grégory Barthelmebs, aged 49, deputy commander of the autonomous territorial brigade of Hersin-Coupigny (Pas-de-Calais), died this Friday following a heart attack which occurred in the service premises , when he had just taken up his post.
The soldier fell ill around 2 p.m. Despite the first aid measures immediately provided by his colleagues, followed by the rapid intervention of firefighters and SMUR doctors, the chief warrant officer could not be saved. He was declared dead at 2:50 p.m., the national gendarmerie said in a press release.
The deceased was married and the father of two children aged 11 and 15. An experienced gendarme, he had more than 25 years of service and had joined the autonomous territorial brigade of Hersin-Coupigny on August 1, 2020. In its press release, the gendarmerie specified that
“Chief Warrant Officer Grégory Barthelmebs, deputy commander of the autonomous territorial brigade of Hersin-Coupigny, died following a heart attack in the service premises”. An investigation was opened by an external unit of the gendarmerie in order to shed light on the circumstances of this tragedy.
Army General Hubert Bonneau, Director General of the National Gendarmerie (DGGN), announced “his condolences and all his support and that of the Institution to the family and loved ones of Chief Warrant Officer Grégory Barthelmebs, as well as to his comrades affected by this tragedy”.
A second police officer dies the same day
Furthermore, a second tragedy devastated the ranks of the national gendarmerie on the same day. Captain Florian Monnier, aged 50, died this Friday, December 20 in Mamoudzou (Mayotte) during an operational mission to restore communications systems.
