Plaques commémoratives du commissariat de police
Plaques commémoratives du commissariat de police stand before the police station in Menton, near France’s Italian border. The memorial plaques honour police officers who lost their lives during the Second World War.
Their inscriptions recall Victor Harang, who became Menton’s central police commissioner in 1943. During the occupation, he joined the Ajax network and gathered intelligence about German fortifications along the Côte d’Azur. He also helped persecuted people with false identity papers and secretly led Menton’s Liberation Committee. The Gestapo arrested him in July 1944, but torture failed to make him speak. After the Allied landings in Provence, he was executed with other hostages in Nice.
The plaques connect that sacrifice with Menton’s wartime upheaval, from evacuation and Italian annexation to liberation. Harang’s name also appears at the Auvare barracks and in Nice’s Ariane district. His posthumous bronze Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française adds one final detail to this solemn place.
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