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Toulon: a judicial police investigator commits suicide in his office

2023-02-20T17:01:31.705Z


The man ended his life this Monday, February 20 in the morning, with his service weapon. A judicial police investigator committed suicide on Monday morning February 20 in his office in Toulon, with his service weapon, on his return from vacation, AFP learned from the prosecution and union sources. “ This death is absolutely dramatic and deeply affects the police and judicial community of Toulon ”, reacted the public prosecutor of Toulon, Samuel Finielz, questioned by AFP. “A new tra


A judicial police investigator committed suicide on Monday morning February 20 in his office in Toulon, with his service weapon, on his return from vacation, AFP learned from the prosecution and union sources.

This death is absolutely dramatic and deeply affects the police and judicial community of Toulon

”, reacted the public prosecutor of Toulon, Samuel Finielz, questioned by AFP.

“A new tragedy”

The 50-year-old police officer was married and the father of a daughter, added the prosecutor, who opened an investigation to determine the exact causes of death, without giving further details on the possible context of this suicide.

Contacted by AFP, the direction of the judicial police of the southern zone, based in Marseilles, did not wish to comment.

This is a new tragedy affecting the ranks of the police

”, reacted for his part Sébastien Soulé, departmental secretary of the Alliance police union in the Var.

The PJ in turmoil

The judicial police have been shaken for months by a reform project initiated by the government, which has sparked an unprecedented revolt.

The former director of the PJ in the southern zone, Eric Arella, was dismissed in October, on the sidelines of these mobilizations.

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This reform project plans to place all the police services of a department - intelligence, public security, border police and PJ - under the authority of a single departmental director of the national police (DDPN), dependent on the prefect.

Many investigators fear a “

leveling down

” of the sector, which will integrate the public security investigation services, weighed down by a huge stock of pending cases and a strengthening of the weight of the prefect in the investigations.

Source: lefigaro

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