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A police officer commits suicide by jumping from the roof of his police station in Rennes

2022-01-27T17:35:18.475Z


His body was found in the courtyard of the establishment. It is the tenth suicide within the ranks of the police since the beginning of the year.


A computer scientist from the Rennes police station ended his life on Thursday morning by jumping from the roof of the establishment, on the seventh floor,

Le Figaro

learned on January 27 from a police source.

His body was discovered by his colleagues a few seconds after the incident, in the interior courtyard of the police station, located on Boulevard de la Tour d'Auvergne.

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Several agents attended the tragedy, and a psychological unit was set up.

The computer scientist was only about thirty years old.

"

It's an unfortunate tragedy

", react to the police, while the death of this technician is the tenth suicide reported in the workforce since the beginning of the year.

The Rennes police had already been bereaved last month by the suicide of a police officer working at the interregional directorate of the judicial police (DIPJ).

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The announcement of the suicide of this technician sparked a wave of reactions, including that of Linda Kebbab, national delegate of the SGP FO Unit union.

Dear colleague, we will succeed in freeing the voice in the Police for all the sufferings.

Together.

With you

,” she wrote on Twitter.

The various unions have been warning about the number of suicides among the police for several years - Alternative Police had also listed no less than 50 proposals to improve their working conditions.

Source: lefigaro

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