The French officer who died Thursday in the crash of a helicopter in the Egyptian Sinai received Monday, November 16 a last tribute on the Alexandre III bridge in Paris, before a funeral ceremony at the military building of Les Invalides.
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The funeral vehicle carrying the remains of Lieutenant-Colonel Sébastien Botta, engaged in operation in Sinai within the "
Multinational Force and Observers
" (FMO), passed on the bridge in front of two rows of soldiers standing at attention, before s '' rush into the enclosure of the Invalides, escorted by motorcyclists from the gendarmerie.
The military funeral honors will be returned to him during a ceremony chaired by the Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Army, General Philippe Lavigne.
A second national tribute ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday at the Villacoublay air base, in the Paris region, in the presence of the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Armed Forces, Geneviève Darrieussecq.
A total of seven members of the FMO responsible for monitoring the peace between Israel and Egypt, including five Americans, a French and a Czech, were killed in the helicopter crash in a routine mission near Sharm el-Sheikh.