Philippe Donnadieu, "functional divisional police commander," died Monday "after several weeks of fighting against the covid-19," said in a statement the Union of Managers in Homeland Security (SCSI). Single and childless, "he was in charge of the employment of the CRS" in the zonal management of the CRS East. "His disappearance leaves a big void," said the National Police on his Twitter account, confirming his death "from the Covid-19".
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The DGPN and the personnel of the @PoliceNationale are affected by the death of one of their own, functional divisional commander, following the Covid-19. His disappearance leaves a great void.
We share the sadness of his family, loved ones and
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The death angered police unions in the Grand Est, who denounced the lack of masks available to the police. "We are told that we do not need masks" on the grounds that "we are not first responders" when we are "more and more contaminated and we see more and more colleagues fall ", indignant Bruno D'Orzio, regional delegate CRS East at Alliance Police Nationale.
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"Like the warriors of the 14-18 war"
"From the moment we have an implication in the management of the health crisis, automatically, we must be taken to the same level as the carers", he added, estimating that the police officers should have been equipped of masks. "In the early hours of the pandemic, we sent police officials like the furry ones of the 14-18 war without protection against gas, except that there the gas was the covid", told France Bleu Lorraine Nord Yves Milla, secretary of UNSA-Police in the Great East.
"Dozens of police catch the coronavirus every day in the Grand Est," assured France Bleu Lorraine nord Michel Corriaux, regional secretary of Alliance National Police, who also denounces "the lamentable management" of wearing a mask in the police.
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Alliance had called at the end of March on the police to stop the checks while waiting for the "sufficient necessary material" to reach them. Several police officers have died from covid-19 since the start of the epidemic. Sunday, a divisional commissioner of Lens (Pas-de-Calais) thus succumbed to the virus at the age of 47 years.