A policeman who mocked the death of Steve Maia Caniço, disappeared during the music festival in Nantes, will be summoned as part of an administrative investigation.

A gendarme will be summoned in an administrative investigation opened following ironic comments published on Facebook about the death of Steve Maia Caniço in Nantes, we learned from the National Gendarmerie.

The personal account of the gendarme closed

Screenshots circulated on social networks showing a Facebook account mocking the death of Steve Maia Caniço, found Monday in the Loire more than a month after his death at the Music Festival dispersed by a police intervention controversial. "The account is a personal account, closed, where the person speaks under a pseudonym," told AFP the National Gendarmerie who seized his general inspection. An administrative inquiry was opened.

Here's how gendarmes talk about Steve's disappearance on facebook. Scandalous. @OuestFrance, @ F3PaysdelaLoire, @BFMTV etc ... You intend to investigate? @Gendarmerie, you plan to lay them off? pic.twitter.com/d5j072dBVp

- Nantes Revoltée (@Nantes_Revoltee) July 30, 2019

It is the diffusion of photos of gendarmes on the same account which made it possible to identify a gendarme which must be summoned by the general inspectorate of the gendarmerie (IGGN). Thursday, this facebook account was closed.