Friday, February 15 took place at the Savannah, the ceremony of tribute to the dead of the national gendarmerie.
In the presence of lieutenant-colonel, Sébastien Manzoni, of the sub-prefect Mickaël Dore, secretary general of the Prefecture of Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin, of civil and patriotic authorities, the soldiers of the Company paid a solemn tribute to the dead of the National Gendarmerie.
In 2018, 14 gendarmes died in the exercise of their functions.
Earlier in the morning, accompanied by the Veterans Association, a delegation gathered at the graves of three constables of the Maréchaussée who died in Saint-Martin at the end of the XNUMXth century.
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our gendarmes are more often at reception and ceremonies than to call out thugs and other delinquents