{"id":79206,"date":"2026-04-23T02:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/79206\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:25:27","slug":"second-french-peacekeeper-dies-in-lebanon-after-ambush-blamed-on-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/79206\/","title":{"rendered":"Second French peacekeeper dies in Lebanon after ambush blamed on Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A second French soldier died on Wednesday from wounds suffered in a weekend ambush against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon blamed on Hezbollah, President Emmanuel Macron said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A first soldier, staff sergeant Florian Montorio, was shot dead in the Saturday ambush, for which Hezbollah has denied responsibility.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cCorporal Anicet Girardin \u2026 brought home yesterday from Lebanon, where he was badly wounded by Hezbollah fighters, died this morning of the consequences of his wounds,\u201d Macron posted on X.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">One of three soldiers hurt in the same attack, Girardin, a member of a specialist dog-handling unit, was part of a mission \u201cto clear a route booby-trapped with an improvised explosive device\u201d, Armies Minister Catherine Vautrin posted on X.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"French Army Staff Sergeant Anicet Girardin. Photo: AFP\/X@EmmanuelMacron\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5889db86-3ee5-426a-9e92-63a91e015872_21736998.jpg\" title=\"French Army Staff Sergeant Anicet Girardin. Photo: AFP\/X@EmmanuelMacron\"\/>French Army Staff Sergeant Anicet Girardin. Photo: AFP\/X@EmmanuelMacron<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cComing under sustained fire from concealed Hezbollah fighters at very close range, he moved to aid his section leader who had just fallen, only to be seriously hit in turn,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second French soldier died on Wednesday from wounds suffered in a weekend ambush against UN peacekeepers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[28652,26558,26556,1143,26517,382,100,28654,93,49,28655,28653,3484,18027,2741],"class_list":{"0":"post-79206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-anicet-girardin","9":"tag-arnaud-frion","10":"tag-catherine-vautrin","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-florian-montorio","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-hezbollah","15":"tag-iraqs-kurdistan-region","16":"tag-lebanon","17":"tag-middle-east","18":"tag-saturday-attack","19":"tag-un-secretary-general-antonio-guterres","20":"tag-unifil","21":"tag-united-nations-interim-force-in-lebanon","22":"tag-x"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116451653998680028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}