A French soldier who was gravely wounded in an attack on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon last week has succumbed to his wounds, President Emmanuel Macron has said.
Another French peacekeeper was killed in the incident and two more were injured; their patrol came under small-arms fire in the village of Ghandourieh in southern Lebanon on Saturday, according to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
In a post on X on Wednesday, Macron said that one of the wounded troops, Chief Corporal Anicet Girardin, who had been evacuated to France a day earlier, had died.
The president expressed his condolences to Girardin’s relatives and to the families of the other servicemen injured in the attack, which he blamed on the Lebanese movement Hezbollah.
Hezbollah said in a statement on Saturday that it “denies any connection to the incident,” calling for “caution in making judgments and assigning responsibilities” pending an investigation by the Lebanese military.
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