REPORTERS - EXCLUSIVE: Mali, in the line of fire
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- čas přidán 26. 03. 2013
- We are in the Ifoghas mountains, in the far north of Mali. Fierce clashes are taking place between French troops and jihadists. In the fighting, four jihadists are killed. But among the bodies is a survivor, a child soldier of just fourteen. Our reporter, Matthieu Mabin, was with the French forces as the attack happened. He brings us this exclusive report.
By Matthieu Mabin
FRANCE 24 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 24/7
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Amazing amount of professionalism and humanity shown by these men.
The legion is top of soldiers, brave and intelligent.
Victorio Guerra pls chill and just try to be kind it’s not a contest we are allies not rivals. Have a nice day
Alex Courtney I agree one of the scariest toughest forces in Europe,but can have such compassion,that's the legions ethics for you...
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It's not everyday you see a Lieutenant Colonel on the front line like that, it's one of the particularities of the french army doctrine.
when i was in afghanistan..... our Colonel was with us for a small walk... and he got hit in the back.. but his plate carrier caught the bullet... the Cononel was fine....
Damn that's hard army work with that terrain, French Legionaries looking professional!
frenky0077 Listen 14:34
@frenky0077 def not lmao
29 Palms, California. Bravo corridor. Ft. Ord too!
One of the most highly respect military units in the world and it for me was a great honor to work with them when I was in the UK forces
Much respect to these soldiers keep up the fight brothers from USA.
Respect from Algeria.
I love how some idiots try to dismiss France's brilliant deployment in Mali by saying that the Foreign Legion isn't really French... It's absurd and wrong.
They also tend to forget that 8% to 10% of the US armed forces are foreign-born personnel. That's in fact considerably more than in the French military, including the Legion.
Good job France.
No one dismiss them,is the reality,they use the foreign legion as frontal or first fighting resource because they are foreigner and for the public opinion is easier or simple to understand the death of an Ukrainian,polish or Chilean than a Paris or Marseille citizens.
They pay them for something.
@@Peter-ox7wh Foreign légion are french soldier the moment they wear the uniform we will cry for them as much as if they were born french, plus there is many french in the legion they are not only foreigner and we send them first because they are an élite tough unit well trained and used To be in first line. Stop talking about something you obviously dont know anything about
Iakoweb... And these soldiers are not necessary from Legion Etrangère !
Peter Rose nah ffl are a choc regiment ,They are meant to go in first to the frontline alongside with french marine troop !
@Patrick Kazan There are easier ways to earn a quick buck!
Thank you for your English translation of your channel.
I ever travelled in Mali andhave some friends in this country. They are very happy of french army coming. That's not propaganda.
Jo Karto not the French army, it’s the Legion
@@70mjc wtf ? X)
@@70mjc french foreign legion is fully part of french army.
@Paper beats rock You really need to come out of your shell, slavery has been severely abolished. Mr. Paper
@@70mjc Not only the Foreign Legion, 5000 men from different other regiments
Poor kid being forced to fight. Thank god he wasn't killed. It was sign he was going to live a good life if he changes
Great documentary.
Good of them to save and talk with the kid and take care of the dead.
@@ihuffandipuff Relax, these aren't Americans
Merci France. Thank you for your professionalism legionnaires
Thank you boots on the ground war correspondent
360p?! A huge news network can only offer their content in 360p?!
Semper Fi to my French Warrior Brothers
Big Respect to the Legion!!
Respect from USA
TY Free World Brother
Well done, France and men of the Légion étrangère!
damn its good to be french army love from indian army
I love the fact that the reporter moves for the crest of the hill faster than the soldier :D
Where is part 2?
Is this video there was the Legion as well as the marine troops
Forget the never about the logistic of french army, Napoleon's logistic was one of the best of his time ...
And theire logistics in WW1 were masterclass.
Got to admire the FFL damn what a bunch of hell of a guys!
7:20 Please help, what song is that?
Good Job France
The FFL are true warriors. Tough men. The world is clueless to this struggle.
All french army are true warriors.
Not only FFL.
FFL is just 9000 men so just a brigade.
What can you do with just a brigade in all Saelian Africa ?
I pity the persons or person who comes across these men,NE PAS SUBIR.
USE THE DRONES, MORE SILENT AND EFFECTIVE.
France: Europe's Army
What happen to the German army, in your opinion?
@@jasons44 That dragon is asleep...last time the German army raised it's head, it took over half the World's armies to put them down..
@@ameyas7726 Yes, but nowadays the military has a bad reputation in Germany and is ill-equipped and ill-trained compared to the British or French. And it would be the Eagle that is asleep, since Germany's heraldic animal has always been the Golden Eagle.
As previously watched as news, French soldiers have successfully fought battles in former French colonial areas and use French as their official language in Africa such as Central Africa, Mali, Congo, rather than Middle Eastern battles such as Afghanistan like operation barkhane, operation sangaris , operation Serval
Why does their foreign legion performs better than the US army assisted Afghani troops.
Migraine cuz afghanis can’t do shit right
This is the elite branch of the French Foreign Legion. These aren't raw recruits.
Different circumstances different results.
these guys needed a shovel 5:00.
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I hope new combat suits and protections could be made to fight in such temperatures. This is a war that will last for decades to come.
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2REP are something else
I appreciate France 24 English , but come on now ! Post in HD for goodness sake .
I love the fact that the French military is part of the NATO alliance. They seem a bit different to me. Kind of quirky. I can't put my finger on it but being different, and professional of course, brings something new to the table. Some new capabilities, tactics, a different way of thinking and eventually solving problems. And problems are something you can always expect will arise in the warfare. No amount of preparing, training and re training can't foresee all the imagined combinations of situations that could happen.. We've seen it in one of the best prepared and most trained for operation in military history - Operation Neptune spear or better known as the Bin Laden raid.. I bet nobody saw that classified stealthy Blackhawk crashing down at the beginning of the mission. That is why special forces members are highly intelligent and capable to improvise and reach decisions in highly stressful and dangerous situations...
This is why I think that the French approach in a joint operation of massive scope, would contribute greatly. I don't wan't to be that guy that keeps calling the French cowards for capitulating so soon in the WW2 and made Paris an open city.. Let bygones be bygones. French military force is a formidable fighting element with advanced and, again, different approach to their weapons design. The only thing that surprises me is their perceived lack of interest in developing new anti ship missile to replace the venerable (and old) Exocet. French Navy needs a new, possibly hypersonic, anti ship missile to be capable of sinking any foe in the open ocean.
That is very hars place to fight and to live
There's very few jihadists from Malian people. A large part came from others countries. Distress and misery are too easier explanations.
The French Foreign Legion are not only fighting for France. I think the fight is a global interest.
Let them fight in French...... the U.S and it’s Allie can’t be trusted in fighting terrorist. We see how quick it took Russia to help Syria. French and US and creating these people to cover their tracks
how do I join? I am in Canada
You need to make the test in France only type french foreign legion recruit center you will find them all
This fight started 13centuries ago and keeps going strong :/
When ? How ?
true professionals love from the US army
Doesn't really look like they have anything "pindown".
mali i'm coming there ❤️
you can't just use some fuel to burn it? or something along those lines?
It's ammonia nitrate, it doesn't burn. On another note, this collective amount is so concentrated that any fire could cause a massive explosion, which is extremely dangerous for obvious reasons
Pela tua resposta posso ver que não passas de um tipo que tem a mania, mas o que eu gostava mesmo, era saber qual a tua opinião sobre o tema do vídeo, se é que tens alguma!!! Que é o mais certo não teres nenhuma, estás mais preocupado com inglês, até porque não terás grande capacidade e informação para avaliar a importância do tema aqui colocado!!!
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well the local cant product on themselves so i think france is right to profit
Thanks you French Foreign Legion, with love from Washington, DC
They didn't hear of drones?
Frenh army use drones, even somes americans raptors. But jihadist are hide. Cant see them from air
De tudo o que disse, foi o inglês que te chamou a atenção!!! Sim senhor!!!
O inglês é perfeitamente compreensível, excepto os erros típicos de escrever rápido, como por exemplo: ("frech" army). Vergonha não tenho nenhuma, porque se te quiseres argumentar aqui estou para ver quem na realidade deve ter vergonha!!! Por tanto se achas vergonhoso o facto de não ter escrito o inglês na perfeição, então veremos como vai a tua cultura geral e discutemos o que realmente aqui está proposto, pode ser?!!!
they didnt find any fight in those cities mentionned by the reporter because the chadian army kept taking a city and continued advancing north
What happened to that kid..?
Transfer to Malians troops and gov. Like all prisoners.
@@ohpatriote5622 now he is in prison..?
@@brahmachowdary6784 now...nobody knows. Perhaps free perhaps not perhaps killed...
Why are they burying the bodies?
Because french soldiers are not salvages, they respect their ennemies, prisoners or KIA.
@@IRACEMABABU sounds pretty gay to me
@@jf8465 That why usa is hated in every country they go
@@thepny_chasseur_de_tricera5361 hate us cuz they ain’t us
When did the French invade Mars? I must've missed it...
They pulled out lmao
Elegante que lo que e
FFL: Send in the BDU!
US: Send in the 50cal with API rounds! Or just a shotgun with Dragons Breath rounds.
Simply not true. French Armed Forces probably only has around 100,000 combat troops, the rest are in support roles. The French Army only has 120,000 full time soldiers. French Foreign Legion is at 7,000. Troupes de Marine is around 20,000 in number. You are wrong. No European country has 300,000 combat troops.
The US Armed Forces has a million and a half personnel, compared to 400,000 French. US infantry would heavily outnumber French infantry.
They're doing some good work there. Good on the French!
that one guy had a nice tan for someone hiding out of the sun, in the rocks, thinking that old St Tropez lotion from the 70's?
that's what i tried to say but i wrote too fast :
"those mens are strangers oR french"
Do most of you know why the French are really in Mali? I see someone has mentioned it, but most seem not to know.
It’s for resources. Nobody has been to war for ethical reasons since WWII
@@70mjc WW2 was the war with the bigest interests not without
It's the Mali who, in emergency, called France to rescue in front of djihadist invasion
They were expelled from the country for professional unsuitability and the Russians were called.
Why not just blow up the nitrate?
i dont think you know what is the foreign legion, those men are strangers of french, they can go in the legion even if they did crimes (but never killed someone or such big crimes), it's a new chance for everyone, i's an occasion to become frnehc for the ones that love this country and wants to fight for it.
They are special forces, their training is harder than most armies in the world and their history is full of heroic battles and last stands like the battle of Camerone ...
They are not special forces, and exept for the discipline, they have the same training than the rest of the army. (in there respective field of course, a paratrooper of the legion have a training as difficult than a paratrooper of the marine).
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Come my brother to fight fundamentalists on the moon...
Legion patria nostra
The AU must to send soldiers in the sahel region
Why generally journalist shoose to follow foreign regiments and not conventional troops or marine troops ?
What the US did in Iraq...what you mean try to fight a war against an enemy without any uniform and how hides behind civilians.''
rainbowsixODST or the fact the entire war was a lie, like every war since WWII
Dip I dip you dip, dip I dip you dip I dip, MALI!!!
@Bob OBrien Lmao it's a Danny Brown song called "dip" about the beauty of Mali look up the music video
omg, no food no water nothing for these people
Wow I became proficient on their language! now it seems I can fully understand French news !😆 btw what a danger for the news reporter they may surrender if encounter the enemy 😅
In french foreign legion, real french people are near 30% of the deployed troups ... I think there are just one thing in FFL we can blame, most of the command hierarchy (sergent, lieutenant ect) are French or white european from other country (often east european legionnaires from Poland, russia ect) it's not a racist reason ... Just because white people selected are more schooled (they from France, east europe, west europe, USA and australia/new zealand) its just a normal thing
non tout les officiers français passe par une école c'est le seul moyens
en france nous ne favorisons pas l'ascension par le mérite
en tout cas un soldat de base ne passera jamais '' sauf cas rare '' officier
un soldat de base peut être promu dans des grade de sous officier mais pas plus
et c'est valable dans la légion comme dans la régulière
Y these people r fighting and for what they r fighting...
NTA NET English Literature judging by your comment, it certainly isn’t for higher education lmao
I dont know about that, but you defiantly dont fuck with the French....coming from an American
Keep the gold Safe and take some percentage France. Sadiola gold mine, Moriola gold mine, Yatela gold mine And Syama gold mine.
Mali has 3rd most good in Africa...
Mali gold isn't exploited by France's companies, but by candian ones
@@IRACEMABABU + south african and british company
Is France the only tough country left ,that keeps a big Infantry!?!?
Legion has 8000 strongs infantry ready to kill
French Army has at least 300,000
French Marines has at least 100,000 in they're infantry.
while in US we only have maybe 40-50 thousand infantrymen in the usmc
and maybe 100,000 in the US army .
tf u mean
lt looks like France is using the Legion more than the regular french army.
Well, the Legion was about 10-15% of the men deployed in Mali.
Kovy fra Are you sure about that ?? Judging from the funeral, it's almost 50% Legion, 50% regular Army. l think legionnaires have green beret.
Drug Addicted Pornstar that because of the great training of the legions so they are more used on difficult task unlike the regular army
Drug Addicted Pornstar Legionnaires have both green and red beret. all of those you see there during the funeral are legionnaires
mikoyyuy13 red beret is the paratrooper not the legion
Creme de la creme respect boys blow all terrorist in 20 pieces take care and stay alive
They need a camo upgrade
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Holly shit.. That is some seriously inhospitable terrain. I can't stand the heat, summer or any of that bullshit. But marching for dozens of miles with full on tactical gear and boots while lugging up to a 100 pounds of supplies, and all that at temperatures exceeding 45 degrees C... I wouldn't/couldn't do it if these guys had incomes like Jeff Bezos, let alone for a few measly thousands of $ per month...
Malheureusement,nos braves légionnaires se battent pour des intérêts qui les dépassent!
Don't bury em, 'buzzards gota eat, same as worms'!
Everything îs politics , who give Guns to the rebels ?
Lol you can use that same device to set up a trap . I love how they always make it sound like there are sooo many of these suicide bombers lol .
Do you believe him? There told to say that
The UN and France must to leave the sahel region
Tell that to the local governments who want them to stay
well, there is french-men in the French Foreign Legion...
Since 2008 french can officially enlished in legion as french. Before, they had to take fake name and fake nationality.
officers
@@kuuroda not only
France aren't big enough to "Europe's Army". Maybe add Britain and Germany and you'll have something.