Only ten days after the terrorist assassination of police official Stéphanie Monfeture in Rambouillet (Yvelines), the blue house was again targeted, Wednesday, in the early evening, in Avignon (Vaucluse). While he was going to finish his day shift within the intervention brigade of the interdepartmental public security district of Vaucluse-Gard, Eric M. was called, alongside several colleagues, to a point of deal in the city center. Upon arrival, the police observed a drug resale transaction. A man shot the 36-year-old official, targeting him in the abdomen and heart. He could not be resuscitated by the SAMU and the firefighters, intervened on the spot. Meanwhile, her murderer was on the run.
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Former Bac
Killed for a drug trafficking case, he leaves behind a partner, with whom he had a PACS, and two little girls, aged 5 and 7 respectively.
Coming from the emergency police, Eric M. was above all a "
daily policeman
", notes a union source.
He had also worked in the Val-de-Marne within the Anti-Crime Brigade (Bac) of Chennevières-sur-Marne.
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He joined the GRI four years ago, where he led law enforcement operations, but mainly intervened in anti-crime cases.
Drug trafficking, growing in the area, occupied most of his days.
"He gave his time and his life for a profession in which he believed"
, we confide.
Three years ago, he acquired the rank of brigadier.
"
His daily life was the fierce fight against these traffickers who undermine the districts of the department,
" adds a source.
"
A great colleague
"
Within the Avignon police station, a “
family
police station
despite the size of the city
”, we remember an “
exemplary
” man.
“
A great colleague, a good guy, always ready to help his neighbor,
” we remember.
“
The police, some go there by vocation, or we end up falling into it because we spend so much time there.
Sometimes even giving up his life there, which none of us deserves, despite our commitment,
”summarizes a civil servant.
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For Eric M., it is certain, the police had quite a vocation since he came from a family of police officers. His father had just retired and had worn the badge in Bagnols-sur-Cèze (Gard). Her sister had put on the uniform, as had her brother, posted to Île-de-France. The latter was planning to request a transfer to come back closer to his brother in the Vaucluse.
