Thierry Vimal, a Nice resident who lost one of his daughters in the attack of July 14, 2016, was received on Tuesday by the director of the municipal police, Jérôme Marcenac. The latter apologized to him on behalf of the institution after the tasteless joke he was subjected to by an agent a few days earlier.
On April 3, while riding a motorcycle in the city, the father was arrested by the vast police force set up not far from the Massena high school, where his second daughter goes to school. Rather than reassuring him and immediately admitting to him that it was just an ordinary fire, the official made him believe that a bomb had exploded in the school, then that a helicopter had crashed on it. “I see this as a mark of the maturity and responsibility that he lacked last Friday,” Vimal reported after this exchange, specifying that he had accepted the apologies of the director. He will be sanctioned, the municipality does not know more about the nature of this sanction at this stage.