Courseulles-sur-Mer: the gendarmes save a man from drowning
By Philippe Jautée
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A Courseulles sur Mer (Calvados)a Calvadosien was saved from drowning by gendarmes Wednesday, January 4, 2023around 19h.
The gendarmerie specifies that he had left his home in the afternoon and had since been sought by two of his relatives.
The man is “unscathed”
Three gendarmes intervened. Two soldiers, including the youngest, a volunteer assistant gendarme in his twenties, jumped from the dike to save him around 7 p.m. The third gendarme was responsible for joining the emergency services and maintaining visual contact as night fell.
The person was handed over to the fire department unharmed. “About the gendarmerie, we often think of prevention or repression, but the first precept is to help”, underlines Commander Pierre Thoumelin, commander of the Bayeux gendarmerie company. “Every soldier has a duty to save people and we have regular training for that. »
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