The stays of the French soldier who died in Mali will cross the Alexandre III bridge on Monday, July 27, 2020. – Bastien LOUVET / SIPA
The assembly is about at 4.30 p.m. this Monday on the Alexandre III bridge in Paris. The military and the French state can pay a final tribute to the French soldier of Malagasy origin killed Thursday in Mali by a suicide automobile, stated the Military. Tojohasina Razafintsalama, aged 25, belonged to the first Parachute Hussar Regiment (RHP) of Tarbes.
His stays will cross the bridge earlier than the homage to the Invalides. A second ceremony is scheduled for the week in Tarbes, the place the first RHP relies, on a date that has not but been specified. Born October 20, 1994 in Mahazarivo, Madagascar, this childless bachelor joined the first RHP in 2018 and was despatched to Mali on July 14.
Multiplication of offensives
His loss of life brings to 43 the variety of French troopers killed in fight in operations Serval (2013) and Barkhane (since 2014), in response to the final workers. It comes after that, initially of Might, of two legionnaires of the French drive Barkhane within the Sahel, which counts some 5,000 troopers. In November 2019, France had misplaced 13 troopers in an accident between two helicopters in operation in Mali.
[#HommageEnDirect] Meet tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. on the Alexandre III bridge in Paris, or just about on our social networks, to salute the reminiscence of Brigadier Tojohasina RAZAFINTSALAMA of # 1RHP, who died for France, who will cross the bridge earlier than the tribute to the #Invalides. pic.twitter.com/AFFEFwlNxv
– Military (@armeedeterre) July 26, 2020
In current months, the French military and people of the G5 Sahel nations have stepped up offensives within the area, specifically within the space generally known as the “three borders” between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.
They demanded the “neutralization” of a number of dozen jihadists, together with in June the emir of Al-Qaeda within the Islamic Maghreb (Aqmi), the Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdal, a determine of jihadism within the area for 20 years.
