The uniform is more than ever the target.
Struck to the heart by the terrorist attack on the Rambouillet police station on April 23, which cost Stéphanie Montfeture the life, the police institution is again in mourning after the shootings in Avignon by a dealer which fatally touched the heart and on the abdomen, Brigadier Éric Masson, father of two children.
Ulcerated and bruised, the profession struggles more and more to bear the tribute paid on the altar of ordinary hatred.
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According to the National Delinquency Observatory, no less than 8,719 police officers and gendarmes were injured on mission last year.
Or more than 23 per day.
At the same time, eleven members of the security forces perished while serving their fellow citizens.
For the first quarter of 2020 alone, the police counted 727 agents affected in operations.
Behind the aridity of statistics, there are so many broken destinies and suffering families.
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