Police commissioner investigating Charlie Hebdo attack commits suicide

Europe, News January 11, 2015 , by IRIA No Comments

Police commissioner Helric Fredou, who had been investigating the attack on the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, committed suicide in his office.

The incident occurred in Limoges, the administrative capital of the Limousin region in west-central France, on Thursday night (January 8, 2015), local media France 3 reports.

According to the police union, Commissioner was depressed and experiencing burnout.

Shortly before committing suicide, he met with the family of a victim of the Charlie Hebdo attack and killed himself preparing the report.

Commissioner Fredou, aged 45 was from Limoges and began his career in 1997 as a police officer at the regional office of the judicial police of Versailles. Later he returned to Limoges, his hometown. Since 2012 he had been the deputy director of the regional police service.

“We are all shocked. Nobody was ready for such developments”, a representative of the local police union told reporters.