A 19-year-old security assistant, who was waiting to enter the police academy, committed suicide with his service weapon at the central police station in Marseille, the police announced on Tuesday 30 June. “ It is with great sadness that we deplore the suicide of one of our colleagues assigned to the center division of #Marseille. All our thoughts go out to his family, relatives and colleagues, "wrote the Marseille police on social networks.
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" We do not know the reason " for the act of the young man, who seemed " to have no personal problems ", nor with his hierarchy, told AFP Rudy Manna, head of the union Alliance, who said the emotion of his colleagues. The young man " had passed his peacekeeper competition and was waiting to enter the police academy ," he said.
The facts took place Monday evening, around 9:00 p.m. at the Noailles police station in the center of Marseille. On Monday, the national police had already reported the suicide of a young security assistant at the Rouen police station.