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Colonel Michel Goya: "Master Corporal Maxime Blasco, an example of courage and humility"

2021-09-28T17:56:42.360Z


TRIBUNE - Master Corporal Maxime Blasco fell in action on Friday, fatally shot, while deployed on Operation Barkhane in Mali. Colonel (ER) of the marine troops Michel Goya pays tribute to the bravery of this young soldier.


We are in the night of June 13 to 14, 2019, in Mali.

There are three of them in the Gazelle helicopter, Kevin and Adrien in the cockpit and Maxime, the sniper, in the back with his feet on the puppets.

All three are engaged in a fight that has already started for several hours against some forty jihadist fighters.

This is going badly.

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As soon as it arrives in the area, the helicopter is hooked, pierced, and fall.

The crash is very severe and everyone finds themselves smashed inside as a fire threatens to blow everything up.

Listening only to his courage, which told him a lot, Paco, the captain of the Tiger helicopter flying nearby, decides to land about fifty meters away to try to recover his comrades in the middle of the zone of fight.

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Seeing this and the rising flames, Maxime overcomes his pains and goes to look for his two comrades embedded in the cockpit.

They are unable to walk.

Never mind, Maxime drags them to the

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Source: lefigaro

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