Michel Neyret

Michel Neyret (born 12 April 1956) is a former police chief of staff (2nd in command) of the Direction interrégionale de la police judiciaire de Lyon (the Lyon Central Detective Branch). He held this role up to his indictment in 2011 for various offences.

Life and career

Early life and education

Michel Neyret was born and raised in Landres in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, the son of a miner. He studied at the law department of the University of Lorraine in Nancy, where he graduated with a master's degree in 1978. Soon after, he passed the recruitment competition to become commissaire de police. (Police Commissioner)

Career as police officer

He began his career at the Regional Service of the Judicial Police of Versailles where he stayed for two years before becoming the police chief of the judicial service at the police station of Meaux. Commissaire from 1983 to 2004 at the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) of Lyon, he left the city in November 2004 to become the police chief of the judicial service at the police station of Nice and obtaining a promotion, becoming commissaire divisionnaire. He returned to Lyon in 2007, where he was chief of staff of the interregional director of judicial police.

Having become a personality in the French National Police, he was honoured Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in 2004 for his outstanding work, especially for having participated at the arrest of a network of fanatic Muslims in the outskirts of Lyon in 1995 and having captured those who escaped the prison of Lyunes.