Yves Bertrand (25 January 1944 – 3 June 2013) was a French intelligence officer and the General Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (
RG) of the
French police
Law enforcement in France is centralized at the national level. Recently, legislation has allowed local governments to hire their own police officers which are called the ''Municipal Police (France), police municipale''.
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from 1992 to 2004. His diaries led to a
political scandal
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in the run-up to the
French presidential election in 2007. On 3 June 2013 he was found dead in his flat in Paris, France. He was 69 years old. The cause of death is as yet unknown.
See also
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Olivier Metzner
Olivier Metzner (22 November 1949 – 17 March 2013) was a French criminal lawyer.
Early life
Metzner was born into a simple farming Protestant family from Champ-Haut, Orne. which had fled Prussia in the nineteenth century. Metzner had a brother ...
References
1944 births
2013 deaths
French police chiefs
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