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Why do so many police officers commit suicide?

2022-02-04T05:19:51.179Z


INVESTIGATION – Gérald Darmanin receives this Friday police unions and associations after a month of January marked by 12 suicides in the police. Post-traumatic stress disorder, harassment, Werther effect... What are the reasons that drive so many police officers to commit suicide?


Marc deeply loved the police. With a passionate love, he considered her a bit like “

his mistress

”. But over the years, murders, corpses, child deaths, the jovial policeman who thought he was solid begins to wear down. He then sees his beloved, the police, metamorphose according to the policies and the evolution of society: the republican policeman then becomes an individualist policeman. We are only asking for numbers. One morning, Marc can no longer get up. In the afternoon, he settles on the sofa and begins to "

play with his weapon

". Until the moment when his girlfriend at the time crosses the threshold of the door with her children. Luckily, that day, she had decided to come home earlier.

Read alsoAbdoulaye Kanté, a policeman at war against those who "break the cop"

Not everyone had this last opportunity to avoid the irreparable.

Since the beginning of January, twelve police officers have taken their own lives.

Although they are all part of the "

same house

", their profile remains very different: they are in their twenties or...

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Source: lefigaro

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