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Lieutenant General Lionel Lavergne, commander of the Overseas Gendarmerie, is appointed director of operations and employment at the General Directorate of the Gendarmerie. Saint-Cyrien, former second-in-command of the GIGN, began his career in 1992 as commander of the intervention platoon at the Châteauroux mobile gendarmerie squadron, explains the mission of high potentials on Linkedin. He then commanded the Libourne company and was deputy and then commander of the paratrooper intervention squadron of the National Gendarmerie (EPIGN).
At the end of his studies at the War Academy in 2004, he joined the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN), before returning to Versailles-Satory as second-in-command of the GIGN (Intervention Group of the National Gendarmerie.
He was then assigned to the DGGN as head of the intervention forces coordination unit and then commanded the Haute-Corse gendarmerie group between 2009 and 2012.
In 2014, he joined the detachment of the security group of the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR) as deputy before taking command in 2017 as colonel and general.
He is an auditor of the Center for Advanced Military Studies (CHEM) and the Institute of Advanced National Defense Studies (IHEDN)
With Generals Hubert Bonneau and Olivier Kim, he is one of the three operational fall generals of the Gendarmerie. He is an auditor of the Institute of Advanced National Defense Studies (IHEDN) and the Center for Advanced Military Studies (CHEM). He is notably an officer of the Legion of Honor and Commander of the National Order of Merit and holder of the Overseas Medal.
It was his deputy and second in command, Major General Pierre Poty, who was appointed commander of the Overseas Gendarmerie. He was elevated to the rank and designation of lieutenant general. General Pierre Poty, 56, knows overseas very well having been second in command of the Gendarmerie of Guyana from 2015 to 2018 and commander of the Gendarmerie of Réunion. He was also deployed to New Caledonia and Guyana when he was at the head of the light intervention team (ELI) of the Aurillac squadron.
He began his career in mobile as a platoon commander at Aurillac, commanded the Calais squadron, then moved to “white” and commanded the Corte company.
He was then head of the independence terrorism section at the anti-terrorism office of the Gendarmerie department before commanding the Rennes research section and then the Gard group. He was also deputy to the deputy director of operational anticipation in Issy-les-Moulineaux. Saint-Cyrien, he is 1st class of honor of the Foreign Legion.
General Pierre Casaubieilh at the head of the Ile de France
Corps generals Pierre Casaubielhdeputy major general, Tony Mouchetdirector of operations and employment, are respectively appointed commander of the Ile-de-France gendarmerie region, commander of the Gendarmerie for the Paris defense and security zone and commander of the New Gendarmerie region. Aquitaine, commanding the gendarmerie for the South-West defense and security zone.
Aged 58 and 54, they respectively succeed Army General Xavier Ducept, appointed government advisor for Defense, and Lieutenant General Samuel Dubuis, appointed Inspector General of the Gendarmerie Armies (IGAG).
Figure of the mobile, specialist in maintaining order, General Pierre Casaubieilh commanded the mobile gendarmerie group of Hyères, the departmental gendarmerie group of Haute-Corse, the Cnefg of Saint-Astier, was deputy to the DOE and commanded the Gendarmerie schools. Saint-Cyrien, he started at the 31/6 mobile gendarmerie squadron in Ajaccio as platoon commander, before commanding the 24/5 squadron in Grenoble then the Albertville company (73). A graduate of the War School, he is an auditor of the 22nd promotion of the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Security and Justice (INHESJ) and an auditor of the Center for Advanced Studies of the Ministry of the Interior (CHEMI). Highly decorated, he is notably an officer of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the National Order of Merit, holder of the Combatant's Cross, the Overseas Medal with “Ivory Coast” clasp, academic palms . He holds a military mountaineer and skier certificate and is a professional intervention instructor.
General Tony Mouchet at the head of New Aquitaine
General Tony Mouchet, Saint-Cyrien, Born in September 1970, began his military career as a patrol leader in a squadron of combat helicopters in the Army. He joined the Gendarmerie in 2001 via the OA competition and first commanded an armored mobile gendarmerie squadron at Versailles-Satory (GBGM) then the company in Givors (Rhône). After the War College, he served at the DGGN as HR project manager in the office of the DGGN at the time, Roland Gilles. He then commanded the Yvelines departmental gendarmerie group.
Then, he was a project manager at the DOE, head of the coherence and synthesis center. He commanded Corsica before becoming DOE. General Mouchet was part of the “short list” to be DGGN and was received by the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau.
On the same theme: General Xavier Ducept appointed government advisor for defense and promoted to army general
General Jean-Luc Villeminey at the head of the Brittany region
The major general Jean-Luc Villeminey, commander of the Gendarmerie of Corsica, is appointed commander of the Gendarmerie of Brittany region, commanding the gendarmerie for the Western defense and security zone and is elevated to the rank and designation of corps general. He succeeds Army General Hubert Bonneau, appointed Director General of the Gendarmerie.
Aged 52, originally from Haute-Saône, Saint-Cyrien, the new head of the Gendarmes of Corsica started in his native Franche-Comté as commander of the intervention platoon at the 22/8 mobile gendarmerie squadron in Belfort . He was then an instructor officer at the special military school of Saint-Cyr-Coëtquidan, commander of the Palaiseau company (78), deputy head of the reserved affairs office of the Director General's office, head of the senior management section. from the officer personnel office to the military personnel directorate then deputy to the head of the officer personnel office to the military personnel directorate.
A graduate of the War School and auditor of the Center for Advanced Military Studies (CHEM) and the Institute of Advanced National Defense Studies (IHEDN), he commanded the Isère group before being internal affairs advisor to the General Secretariat of Defense and National Security (SGDSN). He was the first Deputy Director of Force Employment (SEDF) at the Directorate of Operations and Employment (DOE) after the creation of this sub-directorate.
Lieutenant General Lionel Lavergne, commander of the Overseas Gendarmerie, is appointed director of operations and employment at the General Directorate of the Gendarmerie.
