After the shock of the attack, time for meditation. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal chairs, Wednesday May 22, in Caen (Calvados), a ceremony paying tribute to the two guards killed on May 14 in the attack on a prison van at the Incarville toll booth (Eure). “We will not forget them, we will not abandon them”, said the Prime Minister during his speech, who promised that “their deaths will not go unpunished”. “The sword of justice will not tremble, we owe it to you”, he concluded before awarding the Legion of Honor posthumously to Arnaud Garcia and Fabrice Moello. Follow our live stream.
An exchange with families. The head of government met the families of the victims at 11:15 a.m., away from the cameras, before the ceremony scheduled for noon at the former remand prison in Caen, the city where the two killed agents were based. Around fifty supervisors came from all over France to represent the profession.
Emmanuel Macron replaced at the last minute. The head of state, who was to preside over the ceremony, but canceled his visit to go to Nouméa in response to the crisis in New Caledonia, met the families of the victims on Tuesday afternoon, before his departure.
The two supervisors decorated posthumously. Brigadier supervisor Arnaud Garcia and prison captain Fabrice Moello were posthumously made knights of the Legion of Honor, according to a decree published Wednesday in the Official Journal.
