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"She was our strength." The emotion was palpable this Saturday during the white march in Aiguillon, near Agen, in tribute to Mélanie Lemée, this 25-year-old gendarme killed by a driver on July 4. No less than 2,000 people gathered to salute the girl's memory. Among them, elected officials, anonymous people, but also a lot of friends like Émmeline, Mélanie Lemée's teammate at the Brax handball club.
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"We were still with her on Friday evening"
"It was a force of nature, it was joyful, it gave us morale all the time", she reminded the microphone of Europe 1. "We knew that if there was Mélanie, this n "Was that good. We were still with her on Friday evening to prepare for the coming [handall] season. It's going to be very complicated." A little further in this procession Laurent, responsible for ensuring the security of the event, evokes a professional policeman, but also "very open-minded and attentive to people". And faced with the popular tribute to his colleague, he "can't find the words".
Soon a street in the name of Mélanie Lemée?
Leaving the town hall, the procession stopped in front of the gendarmerie where the crowd cheered several times, many laying flowers, before intoning the Marseillaise. "It was very moving to see so many people. It proves that we are all very affected by this disappearance," commented for his part the mayor Christian Girardi, organizer of the white march, adding that he would propose to the next council municipal to rename a rue d'Aiguillon in the name of the gendarme.