A gendarme from the Hohrod high mountain platoon died Monday morning during a training mission in Haut-Rhin, in the Vosges massif. The non-commissioned officer, aged 43 and father of a child, died instantly.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin expressed his “great sadness’ and conveyed his ‘thoughts for his family and his comrades’ A psychological unit was set up to support the soldier's relatives and his colleagues during this painful episode.