All in Gendarmerie
Frédérique Nourdin, the first female brigadier in the Garde Républicaine and currently its second-in-command, is a small, friendly woman who admits to having “itchy feet”. But behind the bubbly personality lies a strong will, a formidable organiser and a tough stance vis-à-vis what she considers just…
Few people know a woman colonel was in charge on January 9, 2015, when the Kouachi brothers -- who two days earlier had perpetrated a terrorist attack against the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné -- holed up in a printing shop in Dammartin-en-Goële. Anne Fougerat was the colonel…
