Paris shooting investigator commits suicide

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, local media France 3 reports.

Helric Fredou, 45, suffered from depression and experienced burn out. Shortly before committing suicide, he met with the family of a victim of the Charlie Hebdo attack and killed himself preparing the report.

Fredou 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.

On January 7, 2015, two gunmen burst into the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo magazine, known for issuing cartoons, ridiculing Islam. The attackers, later identified as brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, killed 12 people and injured 11, and escaped from the scene. Following two days of nationwide manhunt, the suspects were killed on Friday by French police some 20 miles northeast of Paris.

Reader Comments

sass · 2015-01-11T11:55:15Z

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

aurora · 2015-01-11T15:32:14Z

Suspicious

He was onto something and sadly he was killed. Dead men do not tell tales.

SAJ · 2015-01-11T15:34:57Z

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

Really? now that is weird because i thought i read somewhere that this police commissioner was in charge of first investigation into the arson attack which happened back in November 2011 and was near the investigation into the recent shooting.

Did the Eternal Parasites send in the professionals to cleanup the mess the amateurs made the first time around and reignite the "clash of civilizations" as originally planned. [Link]

SAJ · 2015-01-11T16:57:00Z

was not near the investigation into the recent shooting. *

matrixme · 2015-01-11T16:33:35Z

So he figured out that this was….

So he figured out that this was an orchestrated event. Ok - that was pretty obvious when the unfolding of the story paralleled the Boston Bombing BS in so many ways. One more chapter in reality media set forth to distract the masses. My Q is: Distract them from what? A total worldwide financial collapse or just merely getting them to look the other way when the Western govts decide they want to march Muslims into concentration camps this time since this is now the group that seems to not want to dance to the music being produced by those in power.