"Urgent meeting" after a wave of suicide among the French police

French police officers called for an urgent meeting with Interior Minister Christophe Castaner after two of their colleagues committed suicide last week, bringing the number of suicide cases to 28 since the beginning of this year.

Sixty-eight police officers committed suicide in 2018, according to statistics from the French Interior Ministry.

Police unions have called for silent protests at local centers in honor of their colleagues.

A 48-year-old policeman committed suicide on Thursday at a police station in the southern city of Montpellier and another 25-year-old policeman was found dead at his home in a suburb of Paris, the Le Monde newspaper reported.

Police unions said a plan had been drawn up last year to prevent suicide from becoming "a national issue and the plan was a priority at the ministry level."

Source: (AP)