Special envoy to Montreuil-Juigné
Only his hands protrude from the thick jumpsuit.
“To keep as much dexterity as possible,”
explains Major Maël *.
Her voice is of an applied serenity, as if the danger was not going to be at the tips of her fingers.
If the explosive devices he handles in operation go off, he will almost certainly lose them.
“With gloves, you lose contact with the material,”
he explains.
At 47, this soldier from the 6th Engineer Regiment is a deminer.
A
"passion,
" he says, as if talking about snorkeling.
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The sand and black colored armor it is coated with weighs over 30 kg.
It covers the legs, arms, torso and head like a diving suit.
It protects against a detonation of a kilogram of explosives located one meter at the level of the basin, it is said.
Suffice to say that the protection is limited.
A box on the wrist controls the helmet's functions: headlamp, radio, etc. Deminers always work in pairs.
They are never alone
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