Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin paid tribute to the three gendarmes killed -

Stephane le Tellec-POOL / SIPA

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and his Army counterpart Florence Parly attended the national tribute to Ambert (Puy-de-Dôme) on Monday to the three gendarmes killed on Tuesday by a madman, while they were trying to come to the aid of his threatened companion.

“Three lives sacrificed to save another… Despite our pain, there is no more noble sacrifice than this one”, declared Gérald Darmanin in front of the coffins of the missing covered with a tricolor flag.

The Legion of Honor awarded posthumously

“Too often, the police are criticized.

We reject on them the violence contained in our society, prey to doubt and anguish.

But everyone here knows that the vast majority of French people support, encourage and love their actions, ”noted Gérald Darmanin.

During the ceremony, the two ministers presented the Legion of Honor posthumously to Lieutenant-Colonel Cyrille Morel, Major Rémi Dupuis and Constable Arno Mavel, under the eyes of their families and their comrades.

They also received the medal of the national gendarmerie with bronze palms and of the internal security level gold.

All Ambert shops closed

Slightly injured by the shots of Frédérik L., Chief Warrant Officer Bertrand Boyon, who commands the surveillance and intervention platoon of the gendarmerie (PSIG) of Ambert, had been made a little earlier knight of the legion of honor by the director general of the national gendarmerie.

Saturday, in a statement sent by his lawyer, the companion of the madman had sent "her deep thoughts to the families of the gendarmes", considering the words "insufficient to express his gratitude".

Several hundred people were able to follow the tribute in another nearby square where a giant screen had been installed.

All the businesses in Ambert had drawn their curtains at the request of the mayor of the city, Guy Gorbinet.

"Because of the tribute to our three gendarmes, we will be closed this afternoon" could be read on the window of a tobacco shop.

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