This is the first picture of the senior French police officer who killed himself hours after being assigned to investigate the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre.
Commissioner Helric Fredou, 45, shot himself in his police office in Limoges last Wednesday night, France 3 reported. His body was found by a colleague at 1am on Thursday, hours after the terror attack at the satirical magazine's office which left 12 people dead.
It has been reported that shortly before committing suicide Commissioner Fredou had met with the
family of one of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack massacre. He was 45 years old, single and had no children - began his career as a police officer in 1997, working in Versailles. He eventually returned to his home town of Limoges and in 2012 became deputy director of the regional police service.
French media reports suggest he was depressed and was suffering from burnout.
Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi launched last Wednesday's devastating attack at the office's of the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo.
The attack left 12 people dead. On Friday, the pair were shot dead by police after taking a man hostage at a family-run printing press in Dammartin-en-Goele.
In a separate incident on Friday, Amedy Coulibaly, 32, took about 15 people hostage in a Paris supermarket. Four hostages were killed in the incident along with Coulibaly.
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