Sudden disappearance of Major Rose Lanska, “She was the joy of living personified”

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The sudden disappearance of Major Rosa Lanska moved the military community of Orne. Thursday November 7, 2024 the gendarmes of Orne gathered in Argentan to pay solemn tribute to their comrade who died on October 24 last.

Emotion among the Orne gendarmes

Complexions are red and eyes are moist. The atmosphere is heavy in a room in the Lescot d'Argentan district. A solemn tribute was paid to the military died at 45.

Since the August 1, 2023at major Rose Lanska was responsible for command of the brigade community from Domfront-en-Poiraie (Orne).

18 years of career, including 6 years in Normandy

She began her military career at the age of 26 when she joined the gendarmerie as a volunteer assistant constable.

Born in the Cher department, she was assigned to May 15, 2006 in Indre. After a year and a half, she obtained all the ranks and joined the non-commissioned officer school in Montluçon (Allier) in 2008.

11 years later, she arrived in Normandy, in Seine-Maritime. Her development pushed her to take the technical examination for a judicial police officer in 2014.

In 18 years of career, Rose Lanska has received congratulations 8 times and two testimonials of satisfaction “for her skills as an investigator”.

“The reassuring figure of the policeman who protects”

Her new rank of chief warrant officer took her to the Orne department, to L'Aigle, in 2021. Before going to Domfront.

“She devoted her life to her neighbor. In this, she was the reassuring figure of the gendarme who hated injustice,” recalls the Colonel Pierre-Olivier Benechpatron of the gendarmes of Orne, the path knotted by emotion.

The gendarme also mentions her interest in the territories to which she visited.

She felt the need to quickly learn the territory.

Then addresses her directly, his eyes filled with emotion, “You continue to inspire us.” If astonishment and pain touched each of the gendarmes present, the good humor of the soldier who disappeared, following a suicide, was widely remembered. “She was the joy of living personified. »

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