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A year ago in Djibouti

(B2) A year ago, on May 24, 2014, three members of the European Capacity Building Mission in East Africa (EUCAP Nestor) were seriously injured in a cowardly terrorist attack that hit the Restaurant La Chaumière in the center of from Djibouti. All three had just joined the mission and were celebrating their installation that evening (read: Attack in Djibouti. Several members of European CSDP missions injured).

A year later, says the EUCAP Nestor mission " two of them are still struggling with the terrible consequences of the attack. Their lives will never be the same again. » And the head of the mission Etienne de Poncins from " express all support, comfort and best wishes for a full recovery”.

(NGV)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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