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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
France on Monday pays tribute to three gendarmes from the Ambert brigade (Puy-de-Dôme), killed last Tuesday by a man who was threatening his wife with armed weapons. The ceremony is held in the presence of French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and Army Minister Florence Parly. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin takes part in a ceremony in tribute to Stephanie Monferme, a police officer who was fatally stabbed in the entrance of the Rambouillet police station, near Paris, in April 2021 by a Tunisian delivery driver, who was subsequently shot dead by a police officer. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo arrive at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris to pay tribute to the victims of the 13 November 2015 attacks. IMAGES
Thousands of people took to the streets of Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris, on Thursday to pay tribute to a 17-year-old French teenager killed by the police during a traffic stop, as anger showed no sign of abating. The victim's mother, perched on a van and wearing a "Justice for Nahel" T-shirt, opened the demonstration, followed by hundreds of participants grouped behind a banner bearing the same slogan. IMAGES