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Second French peacekeeper dies after ambush blamed on Hezbollah, Macron says
UNIFIL said the patrol came under fire while clearing a road, and three other peacekeepers were wounded in the attack.
- On Wednesday, Corporal Anicet Girardin of the 132nd Cynotechnical Infantry Regiment died from injuries sustained during a Saturday ambush in Ghanduriyah, southern Lebanon, President Emmanuel Macron announced.
- Hezbollah fighters ambushed the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon patrol while soldiers cleared explosive ordnance along a road to reconnect isolated positions, Armies Minister Catherine Vautrin reported.
- This incident marks the second death from the weekend attack; UNIFIL officials initially reported three peacekeepers were injured, two critically, with Girardin being one of the two who later died.
- President Macron paid tribute to the soldier "who died for France," while the Head of State expressed "the nation's emotion" as the mission opened an investigation into the shooting.
- Girardin is the third French soldier to die since fighting began in the Middle East, following Arnaud Frion's death in Iraq last month, amid escalating Israel-Hezbollah tensions in southern Lebanon.
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Hezbollah throws a drone at the IDFs, who claim the killing of two militiamen.A second French soldier of the United Nations contingent Unifil died as a result of the wounds reported by Hezbollah's attack last Saturday.It was reported that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, wrote on X that Corporal-Capal Anicet Girardin of the 132nd infantry regiment, repatriated from Lebanon, died because of the wounds.Continue reading
2nd French peacekeeper dies after Hezbollah-linked attack in Lebanon
A second French peacekeeper has died after an attack in southern Lebanon by Hezbollah, according to President Emmanuel Macron. The attack happened on Saturday near the village of Ghanduriyah in southern Lebanon, where a UNIFIL patrol was clearing explosive ordnance along a road to reconnect isolated U.N. positions, according to the U.N. peacekeeping mission. The patrol came under small-arms fire from what UNIFIL described as non-state actors. Ma…
The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has lamented this Wednesday the death of a...
A second French soldier of the UN mission in Lebanon, Anicet Girardin, died on Wednesday, 22 April, after being seriously wounded in an ambush attributed to Hezbollah by the UN and France. It was in this ambush that another French soldier, Warrant Officer Florian Montorio, was fatally wounded on Saturday. Hezbollah had "denied any connection with the incident with the Finul".
The 31-year-old Master Corporal Anicet Girardin had been employed in the Finul in Lebanon since January 2026. He was the second French soldier killed in the country in a week. France asked Lebanon for an investigation to be conducted to find those responsible. - "A leader of charismatic men" : rain of tributes after the death of French soldier Anicet Girardin (International).
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