Overview
- Colleagues forced open a restroom after a phone rang unanswered and found the brigadier-chef, with his service weapon on the floor.
- The death occurred on January 10 around 14:45 inside Police aux frontières premises at Gare du Nord in Paris’s 10th arrondissement.
- The Paris prosecutor opened a judicial inquiry and assigned the cause-of-death probe to the 10th-arrondissement commissariat.
- An autopsy was to be performed as part of continuing efforts to establish the circumstances of the death.
- The officer was reportedly on leave and not expected at the facility, against a backdrop of Interior Ministry data showing 27 police and 26 gendarme suicides in 2024.