Correspondent in Berlin
Franco Albrecht was a talented Bundeswehr officer, destined for an assignment with the Franco-German infantry brigade at Illkirch-Graffenstaden.
A bilingual recruit, graduated from the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan school and the German Military Academy.
Germany is his homeland, France his adopted home.
The emblem of brigade 291 - the three oak leaves pierced by two spears - symbolizes two virtues: constancy and loyalty as well as a magical power, immortality.
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Outside the walls of the Strasbourg barracks, ready to welcome Franco Albrecht at the start of 2016, his country, Germany, received large numbers of Syrian and Afghan refugees… At that time, the soldier was on leave in his town of Offenbach, in the Rhineland. -Palatinate.
A stone's throw from his house, a transit camp accommodates some of these migrants.
One evening, he approaches the entrance, loosely guarded by a security guard from a private company.
He previously blackened his beard with shoe polish - which he found
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