What we know about the suicide of an SNCF driver

The railway workers' family is in mourning. While numerous disruptions were identified on a South-East high-speed line, Tuesday December 24, on the evening of Christmas Eve, the SNCF declared this Wednesday that these incidents were due to the suicide of a TGV driver. “He ended his life while the train was moving. The entire railway family is in mourning and is very marked on this Christmas Day by this terrible tragedy”she said in a press release.

This would be Bruno Rejony, a man in his fifties, involved with the CGT cheminots de la Loire and known for his union involvement in the department. “ He was someone with whom I had worked a lot and with whom I shared the fight against bad blows to public service. », Underlines Cécile Cukierman, communist senator from the Loire.

The president of the CRCE-K group in the Senate also specifies that he was a member of the French Communist Party. “He was a great politician and activist”she pays tribute to him. “ The Railway Workers are in mourning following the tragic disappearance of our comrade. The thoughts of the CGT federation are with the family and loved ones of the victim. The attacks against the Cheminote corporation are scandalous. We will respond in due time”for his part shared the CGT Cheminots on X.

“The safety of train passengers was not threatened at any time”

The incident took place south of Seine-et-Marne, in the town of Crisenoy. It was first the Melun public prosecutor's office (Seine-et-Marne) which, earlier in the day, had first mentioned the possibility of suicide, indicating that “the first findings seem to suggest an act of suicide by the driver of a TGV train after the discovery of a lifeless body”. According to a police source contacted by AFP, the driver's lifeless body was discovered a little later.

“As soon as he left his driving position, the train's automatic stopping devices were activated and the train stopped automatically,” SNCF said. “The safety of train passengers was not threatened at any time, nor was the safety of traffic, the traffic management center having been immediately automatically alerted,” added the railway company.

For the moment, the causes of his death have not been revealed but another judicial investigation was opened for this and entrusted to the Melun gendarmerie company, said the prosecution.