War in the Middle East: after the death of a French soldier in northern Iraq, Paris remains cautious

More than twenty years after his first operational mission, in Chad, he planned to hang up his fatigues at the end of it, in Iraq. Engaged in Afghanistan, then in Mali and Niger, chief warrant officer Arnaud Frion, emeritus member of the 7th Alpine Hunter Battalion in Varces (Isère), was due to return in May. Find his partner and his 6-year-old son, who live in a town neighboring his regiment, but also his parents and his older brother, in Roye (Somme), where he grew up.