Dr. Vaillant has written about these men and their adaptation to life throughout the decades.

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Interior Minister Daniel Vaillant said the suspect's death seemed to him "a case of serious malfunctioning" on the part of the police.

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The mayor of Villers-le-Bel, Didier Vaillant, appealed for calm and said he would ensure there was "an impartial investigation, for full light to be shed" on the accident.

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Nor the minister, Daniel Vaillant.

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