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Military honours were given to Mélanie Lemée, a gendarme killed by a hit-and-run driver on Sunday near Agen, at the headquarters of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine gendarmerie region in Mérignac (Gironde), in the presence of the new Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. IMAGES
The coffin of Carène Mezino, a 37-year-old nurse stabbed to death at the end of May in Reims hospital by a mentally disturbed man, is carried in the hearse in front of the Basilica of Saint-Remi in Reims, in the presence of several hundred people, including the Minister of Health, François Braun. IMAGES
On the base of the GIGN, the gendarmerie's elite tactical unit, in Versailles-Satory, near Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron posthumously awarded the Legion of Honour to Major Arnaud Blanc, an elite French gendarme who was killed in French Guiana, an overseas territory of France in South America, while taking part in an operation to combat illegal gold mining. IMAGES
Victims' families and lawyers wait at the Marseille court for the start of the trial of the driver of the school bus that collided with a train in 2017 in Millas (Pyrénées-Orientales), killing six schoolchildren. IMAGES
The funeral procession of French master corporal Maxime Blasco, killed in operation in Mali, crosses the Alexandre III bridge in Paris in front of members of the public and soldiers who came to pay tribute to the "exceptional" soldier, before a ceremony presided over by Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES