TheWestCoast
8th May 2021, 02:33
Not seeing much about this in English language press yet:
https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/armees-un-jeune-pilote-bizute-sur-le-champ-de-tir-des-avions-de-chasse-20210507
The first few paragraphs badly translated by Google:
Armies: a young pilot hazed on the firing range of fighter planes Hooded and tied to a target, the soldier suffered for long minutes the shots of Mirage made near him.
Traumatized by this episode which occurred two years ago in Corsica, he ended up filing a complaint against the authors of the hazing who filmed everything.
By Nicolas Barotte
Posted yesterday at 12:33, Updated yesterday at 14:52
The story is frightening with irresponsibility. It is told by La Provence two years after the events which occurred on the air base 126 of Solenzara in Corsica. That day a young pilot, who had just been assigned there, suffered his "hazing". With a balaclava on his head, he is tied to a target at the Mirage “Diane” training range: a large red cross attached to a pole several meters high.
For several minutes, the planes follow one another and fire live ammunition at another target more than 500 meters away. He only hears the crash of explosions. Other fictitious shots are fired in its direction, tells the regional daily. The pilot will come out of this episode traumatized, he said, the culmination of a series of bullying. The hazing perpetrators filmed everything.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/armees-un-jeune-pilote-bizute-sur-le-champ-de-tir-des-avions-de-chasse-20210507
The first few paragraphs badly translated by Google:
Armies: a young pilot hazed on the firing range of fighter planes Hooded and tied to a target, the soldier suffered for long minutes the shots of Mirage made near him.
Traumatized by this episode which occurred two years ago in Corsica, he ended up filing a complaint against the authors of the hazing who filmed everything.
By Nicolas Barotte
Posted yesterday at 12:33, Updated yesterday at 14:52
The story is frightening with irresponsibility. It is told by La Provence two years after the events which occurred on the air base 126 of Solenzara in Corsica. That day a young pilot, who had just been assigned there, suffered his "hazing". With a balaclava on his head, he is tied to a target at the Mirage “Diane” training range: a large red cross attached to a pole several meters high.
For several minutes, the planes follow one another and fire live ammunition at another target more than 500 meters away. He only hears the crash of explosions. Other fictitious shots are fired in its direction, tells the regional daily. The pilot will come out of this episode traumatized, he said, the culmination of a series of bullying. The hazing perpetrators filmed everything.