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Franck Roger, 52, former municipal police officer and chief sergeant of the 8th RPIMa Parachute Commando Group, lost his life suddenly. A few days later, Max, a 25-year-old from Castres, died following a road accident in Avignonet-Lauragais. He was a worker alongside the jeweler Luc Atgé.
“We are destroyed, collapsed…” A few words this weekend on social networks for Luc and Nathalie Atgé, figures in Castres commerce, stunned by the news they had just heard. Their worker, Max, did not survive to a road accident, Friday January 10, on the RD43 in Avignonet-Lauragais.
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When the firefighters arrived,The driver, alone on board, was incarcerated in the passenger compartment and in cardiorespiratory arrest. The vehicle had just violently hit a tree. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was immediately initiated with the assistance of a medical team from Samu 31. The victim, who lived in Castres, was transported in absolute emergency to a Toulouse university hospital center. His vital prognosis was then in jeopardy.
The next day, the jeweler learned of the sudden death of his worker, “the“he best who ever worked for us”, died of his injuries. “Always smiling, always wanting to learn, always ready to rush into our craziest creations… Life is really unfair,” he confided, “demolished” by the tragic loss. Max went to the Clément de Pémille comprehensive high school, in Graulhet. His parents live in Ariège. He would have celebrated his 26th birthday on January 17.
A few days before, Monday January 6, the city of Castres lost another of its brave men. Franck Roger, 52 years old, former chief sergeant of the Parachute Commando Group of the 8th RPIMa, joined the sky and Saint-Michel. “Franck was a man in the shadows where loyalty was above all his ideal. His life was far from the spotlight. This may refer to the story of an unsung hero, special operations where he served as a GCP at the 8th RPIMA, with personal experiences of those who fight for a cause without seeking recognition. He always had a smile and remained very simple”, confides Gabriel Francq, president of the municipal police association of Castres, on behalf of the. office and its colleagues.
The funeral is to be held this Tuesday, January 14 (9 a.m.), at the Caen crematorium. They will be followed by a ceremony at the Argence columbarium, early in the afternoon.
Death of Jean-Jacques Gros
Finally, a last tribute was paid to Jean-Jacques Gros, 78 years old, Thursday January 9, in Lavaur, where the former military surgeon lived. Officer of the National Order of Merit and holder of the Combatant’s Cross, he had been a reservist at “8” from 1999 to 2012, and had participated in two missions in Afghanistan, in 2002 and 2008, which he had described in a book White blouse and black burkas.
In the 2020 municipal elections, Jean-Jacques Gros ran for mayor of Castres by leading a National Rally list. Before taking the lead in Eric Zemmour’s Reconquest movement at the local level as departmental delegate for Tarn.
