Posted on 04/07/2009 9:17:35 PM PDT by BlackVeil
NDJAMENA (AFP) - European peacekeepers were hunting for a "deranged" French Foreign Legion officer who fled after going on a shooting spree in Chad, killing two comrades, a Togolese UN soldier and a farmer. The shootings began Tuesday at Camp des Etoiles, the main base of the European peacekeepers near the airport in the eastern town of Abeche near the Sudan border, a French military official said. "Gunshots were heard in the (military) camp and then the two legionnaires were found and then a little further away the body of the Togolese soldier was discovered," said Captain Christophe Prazuck. The soldier, an officer he described as "deranged", opened fire around 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) with his service weapon and then fled, Prazuck said. A Chadian official told AFP on condition of anonymity that the legionnaire shot and killed a civilian about four hours later after the man, a local farmer, resisted the fugitive's attempt to steal his horse. French Defence Minister Herve Morin said he deplored the "tragic accident" and that the errant soldier had clearly been "seized by a fit of madness. " ...
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One of the more alarming of the recent spate of mass shootings.
TROP strikes again perhaps monsieur?
(A “deranged” soldier? A soldier is disarmed, a cowboy is deranged.)
No information yet about his name or identity - I shall post that as soon as I find out. He could be anything, because he is in the Legion.
Gendarmes...
Reminds me of a song I like.
Must have been a weapons malfunction...
I thought they were not suppose to actually function as intended...
He probably wears a white hat not a black one.
Identified as Josafa Moura da Silva Pereira, a Frenchman of Brazilian origin, he killed two legionnaires of Guinean and Romanian origin, including his superior, then a Togolese UN soldier inside their military camp.
After fleeing the scene, he then killed a Chadian farmer for his horse, taking flight across semi-desert terrain. He was recaptured at a well about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the camp at Abeche in eastern Chad.
"He said he committed his crime because he was threatened by his brothers-in-arms," the newspaper Le Progres said, without making it clear whether it had spoken to the soldier or was quoting his statement to the Chadian police.
"Da Silva Pereira 'was fed up' with the repeated provocation from the two soldiers he killed."
I was assigned to Djibouti in the early 90’s, met many legionnaires from the 13th, the bars were full of them..
once was drinking with an American assigned to the 13th..the bartender shortchanged him..he pulled him over the bar..dragged him to the front door and tossed him into the street..the legionnaire returned downed his drink and jumped over the bar and began serving us..
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