Policemen Killed: moved, colleagues honor them during a minute’s silence – Le Figaro

Feature – Responding to a request from the Ministry of Interior, all the police of France and the place Beauvau watching Wednesday noon a minute of silence in tribute to the two policemen killed Monday in Magnanville, in Yvelines

It was at noon, in all police stations of France and the Ministry of Interior. a minute of silence was observed Wednesday in tribute to the couple of police officers – Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, and Jessica Schneider, 36 – killed in the night of Monday to Tuesday at their home in Magnanville (Yvelines) by Larossi Abballa, a 25-year French which is called the Islamic State terrorist group. In the police station of the eighteenth arrondissement of Paris, in the neighborhood of La Goutte d’Or, which had itself been attacked early January by a man claiming to Daech, all officers and employees present went, one minute before appointment in a room adjoining the reception room, to observe the minute of silence, united in the same emotion. state of emergency requires two officers remained on guard outside the building, heavily armed and equipped with bulletproof vests, but also respectful of quiet time on their radios announced by the Paris péfécture.

At 12 o’clock, the prefecture announced the start of the minute of silence in tribute to the Commander Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his wife, Jessica Schneider, “brutally murdered”. A minute symbolic “to honor their memory,” the audio message. As to all police stations in the country, the flag is at half mast the day before, and for two more days.

“I was hoping that today many more”

in front of the police station, Eric Denis, the director of the nearby multipurpose School of the police station, came down to watch, too, this time of silence among police. Its establishment was closed in emergencies January 7, when a man armed with a knife was shot after running into two police officers posted outside the building. “I hoped that one is more likely to gather outside the police station. My school had been confined in early January and today I feel touched by this attack, as a public servant, “says the manager of this small school of the street of the Goutte d’Or. “If we attack the same function of police, where are we? Will” still alarm that official of Education.

Within the eighteenth and ninth police districts, these agents were asked by their superiors not answer questions from reporters. Rue Chauchat, in the ninth, only an officer after refusing to speak, spear, annoyed: “According to you? What does it feel ?! “. Sign of the immense emotion that captures all security forces since the murder of their colleagues.

François Hollande, Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve meeting place Beauvau

silent tribute was also made at 24:00 Place Beauvau with President François Hollande, Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, immediately followed by the Marseillaise and applause in tribute to the forces of order. As of Tuesday, the flags of the ministry buildings were at half-mast for three days after this “despicable murder” in the words of Bernard Cazeneuve. A minute of silence was also observed in Magnanville, the town Yvelines which was the scene of this terrible attack.