French Gendarme’s Death Case Reopened: Family Challenges Suicide Ruling

The theory of suicide favored during the first dismissal confirmed on appeal in 2015 has not so far convinced the victim’s parents. For the family’s lawyer, the theory of suicide was favored. Many factual elements in the file reveal that the young gendarme had difficulties well before her death. These are the conflicts that opposed her to her hierarchy, relating to her working conditions, to certain behaviors of her colleagues that she had denounced, and which would have created a hostile climate against Myriam Sakhr and with the staff of the operations and intelligence center of the gendarmerie (CORG) of the Rhône in which she had been working since June 2010, reports Bondy Blog.

The request for this reopening aims to know the place of harassment in the death of Myriam Sakhri. Thus, for the hearing on January 26, a document of about sixty pages has been produced, clarifying the chronology, the contradictions, as well as the shortcomings in the way the investigation was conducted. In addition, in the factual and legal demonstration, there are a number of new testimonies that prompt the request for reopening. The Attorney General, following the lawyer, has therefore seized the investigation chamber.

The objective is to discover the truth or to reach the source of the circumstances of her death, by integrating all possible leads, without excluding anything, stressed the family’s lawyer.