On Wednesday March 16, motorists witnessed an extraordinary scene: a body on fire coming out of a parked vehicle, reports
Midi Libre
.
Information confirmed to
Figaro
by a source familiar with the matter.
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According to this same source, the firefighters informed the gendarmerie around 6:15 p.m. of their intervention for "
an Army personnel
" who attempted to commit suicide by setting himself on fire in his personal vehicle, in the city center of Montpelier.
Severely burned, Nadia Mostefa, captain of the gendarmerie in the Hérault group, was transported to the Lapeyronie university hospital center in Montpellier.
His vital prognosis is then engaged.
Montpellier public prosecutor Fabrice Bélargent told
Le Figaro
that she died on Friday March 18 at 8 a.m.
On Twitter, the spokesperson for the firefighters of France lamented an “
invaluable loss
” and greeted this gendarme who “
cherished her child as she cherished her uniform
”.
Regarding the motivations that could have pushed her to commit this gesture, no writing has been found on this subject, and the reasons for this act remain undetermined, we are told.
However, according to the regional daily, the soldier could have ended these days following the loss of custody of her 6-year-old son.
"
The gesture does not seem, except for an unknown element, in connection with the exercise of the professional activity of the officer of the gendarmerie
", noted for his part the prosecutor, adding that this one "
probably falls within the sphere personal data of the person concerned
”.