Comment: Glorious country: Epidemic of suicides in the police; France, number one in the consumption of anti-depressants; an oppressive educational system which breaks children, sometimes even driving them to suicide at ages as young as FIVE; and the MIVILUDES' anti-cultists are worrying about "cults" committing mass suicides in 2012???
Daily newspaper Libération reported that the first of the three officers was found dead some time around 8am on Thursday. The 29-year-old had killed himself "with the help of his service weapon in an unmarked car" in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, according to a source quoted by the newspaper.
The second police officer shot himself about one hour later, at 9am, after shooting and killing his ex-wife.
Reports said the woman had just returned home from taking her two children, aged 5 and 7, to school in Chevilly-Larue, south of Paris.
She found her former husband waiting at the door of the building where she lived and ran when he brandished his police weapon. The 37-year-old officer shot the woman, hitting her in the shoulder and the head. After the shooting, the policeman went to his car where he shot himself in the head. The two were taken to separate hospitals where both died.
In the third incident, at around 10am, a 36-year-old police officer hanged himself at his home in Pré-Saint-Gervais to the north east of Paris.
Police held a meeting to discuss the wave of suicides on Thursday but sources quoted by Libération said it was "the first time in the police" that a string of suicides happened "on the same day" and that the timing seemed to be "coincidental."
A police source said the three events seemed to be linked to "marital and private difficulties."
A report in Le Parisien on Friday claimed that the suicide of the first of the three officers was linked to the recent deaths of his father and grandfather. The second had been separated from his wife for three years, leading to depression. The third man was reportedly having relationship problems.
Claude Guéant, interior minister, offered his condolences. Police union leaders said the stresses of police work can lead to terrible consequences.
Comment: This is exactly why SOTT members in France extended their community outreach program to local French police officials. They accepted our offer once they heard about the scientific background and the international success and testimonies to the stress reduction and regenerative effects of the breathing and meditation techniques of Eiriu Eolas. Both local police and army were days away from participating in introductory classes of EE when someone higher up the chain of command evidently pulled the plug and, armed with "Jean's" defamatory accusations, began to carry out a witch hunt on behalf of France's persistently militant 'anti-secte' organisations.
"The stress of our profession can lead men and women to the worst extremes when they find themselves with personal problems," said Nicolas Comte, general secretary of police union Unité-Police SGP-FO.
A study in 2008 by the national institute of health and medical research (Inserm) found that police officers had a 36 percent higher risk of suicide than the general population. The same study found there are around 40 to 50 suicides each year in the police and that officers often use their service weapons.
These drugs are known to increase the likeliness of committing suicide, as one of their many "side effects."
It has been cynically proposed - but I have a tendency to believe it - that these drugs are actually being marketed for their side effects. Numerous studies have proven that the effect of any of these drugs on the target symptoms is no different than that of a placebo.
If we are content with a 25% success rate at treating "mental illness" why not save a lot of money and hassle and just hand out sugar pills?
That their employer was aware that these cops were depressed indicates to me that they were already in the "mental health" system and probably all on anti-depressants.
It is extremely dangerous to the public to put cops or other armed individuals on psychoactive medications! Another common "side effect" of many of these drugs is homicide!