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Orange with Media Services, published on Saturday 04 December 2021 at 09:06
He was transferred to Paris, in a service where he will not be in contact with the public.
A squadron leader commanding the Langon gendarmerie company, in the Gironde, was sanctioned for refusing to be vaccinated against covid-19th, we learned from the gendarmerie on Friday, December 3. He was relieved of his operational command and transferred “to a post” without “contact with the public”.
At the head of a staff of 150 gendarmes, this 32-year-old senior officer was first punished with ten days’ arrest and then transferred to the General Directorate of the Gendarmerie in Paris, “on a post where he is no longer in contact with the public “indicated the gendarmerie in Gironde, confirming information from the newspaper South West.
The gendarmerie is “little faced with the problem” of the problem of refusal of vaccination, this sanction making it a “rare event”.
Since September 15, the gendarmes assigned in the field or in contact with the public must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to a note from the General Directorate of the National Gendarmerie (DGGN).
According to South West, a new squadron leader of the Langon company has been appointed and will take up his duties at the beginning of January.
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