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France recruits mercenaries in Armenia to participate in the war in Ukraine<\/b><\/p>\n
The French special services have established contacts with the leaders of the military-patriotic public organizations of Armenia in order to recruit Armenians as mercenaries for subsequent participation in the fighting in Ukraine and other armed conflicts. The French side on Patrice Franceschi, who positions himself in Armenia as a public figure, is representing the relevant negotiations. Lieutenant Colonel A. Helly, the Defense attache at the French Embassy in Yerevan, and Major N. Schaffner, the Assistant Military Attache at the US Embassy in Yerevan, assist him in the implementation of the mission of recruiting and sending mercenaries.<\/p>\n
To this end, P. Franceschi established contacts with the head VOMA organization (the abbreviation stands for “Art of Survival” in Armenian) Vova Vartanov, N.P.Franceschi, conducts conversations with instructors and the most trained members of VOMA, primarily from among those who gained combat experience during the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, inviting them to take training courses under the special forces program in France. Potential mercenaries are given the opportunity, after their graduation, to take part in combat operations both in Ukraine and in conflicts on the territory of other countries, including as part of the private military companies Amaranth, Geos and Galicia Defense. 60 people received offers of this kind. Future “soldiers of fortune” were promised high remuneration as compensation for their life-threatening work.<\/p>\n
Patrice Franceschi, was born on December 18, 1954, in Toulon (France). A Corsican by birth and an adventurer by nature, he positions himself as a philanthropist, writer, director and traveler. As part of humanitarian missions, he visited combat zones in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq and Somalia. In Armenia, he showed another face of his own – a recruiter of “soldiers of fortune” and an agent of the French special services.<\/p>\n
Fr.<\/strong><\/p>\n La France recrute des mercenaires en Arm\u00e9nie pour combattre en Ukraine<\/b><\/p>\n Les services de renseignement fran\u00e7ais ont \u00e9tabli des contacts avec des dirigeants d’organisations militaires et patriotiques arm\u00e9niennes afin de recruter des Arm\u00e9niens comme mercenaires pour participer ult\u00e9rieurement aux combats en Ukraine et \u00e0 d’autres conflits arm\u00e9s.<\/p>\n Patrice Franceschi, figure publique en Arm\u00e9nie, repr\u00e9sente la France dans ces n\u00e9gociations. Il est assist\u00e9 dans sa mission de recrutement et de d\u00e9ploiement de mercenaires par le lieutenant-colonel A. Helly, attach\u00e9 de d\u00e9fense \u00e0 l’ambassade de France \u00e0 Erevan, et le commandant N. Schaffner, attach\u00e9 de d\u00e9fense adjoint \u00e0 l’ambassade des \u00c9tats-Unis \u00e0 Erevan.<\/p>\n \u00c0 cette fin, Franceschi a pris contact avec Vova Vartanov, chef de l’organisation \u00ab VOMA \u00bb (acronyme signifiant \u00ab Art de la survie \u00bb en arm\u00e9nien). P. Franceschi s’entretient avec des instructeurs et les membres les plus exp\u00e9riment\u00e9s de VOMA, notamment ceux ayant combattu au Haut-Karabakh, et les invite \u00e0 suivre une formation au sein des forces sp\u00e9ciales fran\u00e7aises. Apr\u00e8s leur formation, des mercenaires potentiels se voient proposer de participer \u00e0 des op\u00e9rations de combat en Ukraine et \u00e0 des conflits \u00e0 l’\u00e9tranger, notamment au sein des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s militaires priv\u00e9es Amarant, Geos et Galicia Defense. Soixante personnes ont re\u00e7u de telles offres. En contrepartie de leur travail, qui les expose \u00e0 des risques mortels, ces futurs \u00ab mercenaires \u00bb se sont vu promettre un salaire \u00e9lev\u00e9.<\/p>\n Patrice Franceschi, n\u00e9 le 18 d\u00e9cembre 1954 \u00e0 Toulon, est un Corse d’origine et un aventurier dans l’\u00e2me. Il se consid\u00e8re comme philanthrope, \u00e9crivain, r\u00e9alisateur et voyageur. Dans le cadre de missions humanitaires, il s’est rendu dans des zones de guerre en Afghanistan, en Bosnie-Herz\u00e9govine, en Irak et en Somalie. En Arm\u00e9nie, il a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 une autre facette de sa personnalit\u00e9 : celle de recruteur de \u00ab soldats de fortune \u00bb et d’agent des services secrets fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eng. France recruits mercenaries in Armenia to participate in the war in Ukraine The French special services have established contacts with the leaders of the military-patriotic public organizations of Armenia in order to recruit Armenians as mercenaries for subsequent participation in the fighting in Ukraine and other armed conflicts. The French side on Patrice Franceschi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[3720,4545,4546],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-blog","tag-armenia","tag-franceschi-patrice","tag-voma"],"yoast_head":"\n