“France killed my husband through its inadequacy, its laxity and its excessive tolerance,” accuses the widow of Eric Comyn, the gendarme killed on Monday in the Var region after refusing to comply.
Immense emotion and anger following the death on Monday of Warrant Officer Eric Comyn, 54, during a roadside checkpoint in Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes). At his funeral in Mandelieu-la-Napoule on Wednesday August 28, the soldier’s widow accused “France” of being responsible for her husband’s death.
“I say it loud and clear: France killed my husband. By its inadequacy, its laxity and its excessive tolerance. France killed my husband,” repeats Harmonie Comyn, her voice full of emotion. How, why, can this multi-recidivist man go free?” asks this mother of two teenagers, now orphans?
How many dead…?
The words ring out loud and clear. She continues: “When will our legislators open their eyes? Do they have to be directly affected to act? How many deaths will there be before these murderers are truly punished,” she continues, before asserting: ‘1981 should never have existed’ (in other words, the abolition of the death penalty should never have.
🔴 Hommage au gendarme tué
“Je remercie notre France d’avoir tué mon tendre époux. La France a tué mon mari par son insuffisance, son laxisme et son excès de tolérance” : la veuve d’Eric Comyn s’exprime ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/wfDigRdW0Y
— LCI (@LCI) August 28, 2024
Three hot meals a day
In front of a crowd of elected officials, military personnel, personalities and friends of the victim, Eric Comyn’s widow continued her accusation: “What next for this murderer? Immediate committal for trial. Three hot meals a day, welfare in prison, where pensioners who have contributed all their lives from their work potentially have to work again to get three hot meals a day. Then the sentence is reduced for good behavior, he’s free, and off he goes again. And what about us? No more son for my in-laws, no more brother (…) no more dad, no more husband. We, on the other hand, got life.
A recidivist hit-and-run driver
It’s hard not to agree with this widow whose life has just been turned upside down by a multi-recidivist hit-and-run driver. This 39-year-old man, who fled the scene after hitting a policeman with his car, was arrested a few hours later. He was intoxicated. Of Cape Verdean origin, he had 10 criminal convictions, mainly for traffic offences, according to the Grasse public prosecutor’s office. A “road delinquent”, explained resigning Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
How many more police and gendarmerie deaths will it take to put an end to the 25,000 or so refusals to comply per year committed by petty criminals? Because, very often, these drivers are also criminals.
Hommage à Éric Comyn, gendarme tué lors d’un refus d’obtempérer, sur l’autoroute A8 à hauteur de #Mougins.
L’adjudant Éric Comyn était âgé de 54 ans, marié et père de deux enfants de 16 et 12 ans. pic.twitter.com/2C3qB9eQ5R
— 36quaidesorfevres (@36_qdo) August 27, 2024
