Sent as reinforcements to the island after the passage of Cyclone Chido in Mayotte, the 50-year-old man died of illness, indicates the Ministry of the Interior in a press release.
“While he was carrying out an operational mission to restore communication networks in the Mount Combani sector in Mamoudzou”, Florian Monnier, 50, a gendarme who came to reinforce the island after the passage of cyclone Chido, died this Friday 20 December. He was in Mayotte “to strengthen the relief and security system for the Mahorese population”.
It was Bruno Retailleau and the Ministry of the Interior who announced it via a press release published on X, formerly Twitter. The man was assigned to the national gendarmerie in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in Hauts-de-Seine.
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Mr. Bruno Retailleau, Minister of the Interior, expresses his deep emotion following the death of Captain Florian Monnier, assigned to the national operations center of the general direction of the national gendarmerie in Issy-les-Moulineaux (92), sent in…
— Bruno Retailleau (@BrunoRetailleau) https://twitter.com/BrunoRetailleau/status/1870164062417629350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Victim of discomfort
Captain Florian Monnier, in a civil partnership, was quickly taken care of at the Mamoudzou hospital center, “where he succumbs to his discomfort”. He had joined the general management of the national gendarmerie a few months ago and had returned from a previous assignment in New Caledonia.
Thursday December 19, Emmanuel Macron indicated that 1,200 “security forces” were still expected on the island in order to “secure neighborhoods” in the face of looting.
