Aged 45 and father of three, the man ended his life Thursday night at his home. In 2018, 35 policemen and 33 gendarmes killed themselves, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

A 45-year-old policeman ended his day by hanging on Thursday night in Toulouse, which adds to the record of police suicides since the beginning of the year, a police source said Friday.

This policeman, assigned to the territorial brigade center, the central police station of Toulouse, had passed Tuesday in disciplinary council implicated for "permutation financed", is the payment of bribes to obtain a mutation, indicated a source close to the folder.

Police officer, father of three, killed himself at home

He killed himself at his home, said La Dépêche du Midi . "Pain and immense sadness of the corporation Sebastien was father of three children, we join their sorrow and think about his companion, his family, his relatives and his colleagues", reacted on his Facebook account the union Unit SGP Police FO

A listening cell set up at the end of April

In response to the 34 suicides of police officers enumerated since January in France, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner installed a "suicide prevention alert cell" at the end of April to "break the silence". In 2018, 35 policemen and 33 gendarmes committed suicide, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior.