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In Mayotte, a gendarme sent as reinforcement after Cyclone Chido died on mission, announced the resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau (illustrative photo taken on December 15).
MAYOTTE – The announcement arrived a few minutes after a tribute paid by Emmanuel Macron to the soldiers, police and gendarmes deployed in Mayotte, the archipelago fatally hit by Cyclone Chido. This Friday, December 20, the resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau deplored the death of Florian Monnier, a gendarme sent as reinforcement to the overseas territory.
« On December 20, 2024, while leading an operational mission to restore communications networks in the Mount Combani sector in Mamoudzou, Captain Florian Monnier suddenly lost consciousness. », We can read in a press release issued by the minister. “ He was quickly taken care of by his comrades and evacuated to the Mamoudzou hospital center, where he succumbed to his illness. »
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Information systems specialist, Captain Florian Monnier was “ assigned to the national operations center of the general directorate of the national gendarmerie in Issy-les-Moulineaux », and had just been deployed to Mayotte – on December 18 – to help restore infrastructure after the cyclone, and rescue and secure the local population. He was 50 years old and in a civil partnership, specifies the communication from the Ministry of the Interior.
Macron praises the work of the armed forces in Mayotte
Bruno Retailleau ends his message with support addressed to the family, relatives and comrades of the gendarme. His counterpart in the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, for his part expressed his “ very strong emotion upon learning of the death of a soldier of the National Gendarmerie, on a reconnaissance mission in Mayotte, following an illness “. On social networks, the official account of the institution also announced its “ pain and strong emotion » after the captain's death. “ Our sincere condolences and all our support to his family, loved ones and comrades. »
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Around the time the news was communicated by French officials, head of state Emmanuel Macron had finished an address to French forces stationed in Djibouti, where he had just arrived from Mayotte. A speech during which he notably praised “the essential role” of the French armed forces in the face of “the desolation, the distress, the disarray” that he saw there.
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