How to say goodbye.
More than 150 people came to attend the mass of homage to Hervé Coudrel, the chief of the municipal police force of Persan at the church of the commune.
He died on July 31 at the age of 57 from a heart attack and his funeral had taken place two days earlier.
“Attached to public service, he had an exemplary commitment”, underlined the mayor, Alain Kasse (DVD) in a short speech.
He returned to the stages of his career.
“He has held the position of municipal police officer since 1986 and was established in 1988 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, after having carried out his military service”, he mentioned.
Hervé Coudrel arrived in Persan in 1997 after working in Méru (Oise) and Asnières-sur-Oise.
It was there that he gradually rose through the ranks.
He notably took care of the installation of the urban supervision center.
“Security was a subject that was particularly close to his heart,” said Alain Kasse.
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He had set up the vaccination center
But his involvement often went beyond his duties as a municipal police officer.
“Hervé was someone we could count on in all circumstances,” said Alain Kasse.
In the spring of 2020, he had managed to obtain 130,000 masks for the inhabitants of the commune.
He coordinated the setting up of the town's vaccination centre.
More singular, he had been very involved in the support of the Ukrainian populations undergoing the war.
“He spent many hours on the roads of Europe and took risks,” recalled Alain Kasse.
As early as March, he had assembled a convoy of vehicles to bring emergency aid to Romania, at the Ukrainian border.
“We were 14 trucks, I was driving one of them, says Radu, of Ukrainian nationality at the end of the ceremony.
He was a golden man.
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He was planning a fifth trip to Ukraine
Three more trips followed, this time to the interior of Ukraine.
Hervé Coudrel had set up an association, Ukraine Persian Solidarity.
This is how Pascal had made his acquaintance.
“I had only known him for five months, but it was as if I had known him all my life,” he confides.
He was preparing for a fifth trip at the time of his death.
“I sometimes disagreed with him but I respected the man.
He was doing his job well, ”said Jacques Jacopit, former deputy mayor.
“I learned a lot with him.
He was someone who had a solution to all problems, someone who had his hand on his heart, ”said Régis, a former municipal policeman from Persan, now in Beaumont-sur-Oise.
The ceremony ended with the broadcast of a song that he liked very much, “La Vie ne ment pas”.
The exit from the church was made to the sound of Ave Maria by Franz Schubert.