Article updated on 4 July 2018
On Friday 29 June 2018, at the Château du Val-Saint-Germain, Colonel Jean-Marc Michelet, who has headed the group since 2015, officially announced his departure for the head office in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine). Colonel Karine Lejeune, who has 19 years’ service, will therefore take over from him in August. She began her career in Essonne as deputy to the commander of the Palaiseau company, where she was notably involved in setting up the first points of contact for domestic violence. This issue has been a recurring theme throughout her career, as she conducted a study on the subject from 2005 onwards, whilst working at the General Directorate of the National Gendarmerie.Article created on 1 May 2018
Appointed spokesperson for the National Gendarmerie on 29 February 2016, Colonel Karine Lejeune has, since graduating from the National Gendarmerie Officers’ School (EOGN) in 2002, served successively with the Palaiseau departmental gendarmerie company (91) as deputy commander, then at the Victims’ Support Unit within the Ministry of the Interior, before taking command of the Cambrai (59) departmental gendarmerie company in 2009.
A graduate of the École de Guerre, she held the post of head of the ‘crime prevention’ section within the DGGN until her appointment.