Seriously injured on a motorcycle in Fontainebleau, where he had been following a training course since September 7, a 26-year-old gendarme died during the night from Friday to Saturday.
Non-commissioned officer of the proximity brigade of Roisel, in the Somme, Joachim Kaczmarek died at the military hospital of Percy (Hauts-de-Seine), according to a press release from the Ministry of the Interior.
The accident occurred Thursday on a departmental road during an exercise.
The young gendarme, who had passed the non-commissioned officer competition in 2016, fell at the exit of a bend and slipped on the roadway before colliding with a vehicle arriving in the opposite direction.
An open kitty for his partner
"I learned with emotion the death last night of one of our gendarmes, victim of a motorcycle accident in Fontainebleau Thursday evening, reacted Saturday Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, in a message posted on Twitter.
My first thoughts are with his family and his comrades.
I assure them of my full support.
I learned with emotion the death last night of one of our gendarmes, victim of a motorcycle accident in Fontainebleau Thursday evening.
My first thoughts are with his family and his comrades.
I assure them of my full support.
- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) September 26, 2020
The Gendarmerie of the Somme indicated that an online kitty had been opened for the companion of the young man on the site of the Foundation "Maison de la Gendarmerie".
