French Foreign Legion faces scrutiny over avalanche deaths
(The Guardian France)

Four officers face manslaughter trial after six recruits died on gruelling training exerciseThe French Foreign Legion´s notoriously tough approach to military training is to be examined in a court in Lyon where four officers and junior officers face trial for manslaughter over the death of six recruits who died in an avalanche.Lawyers have accused the elite force of a `lack of humanity` in pushing soldiers to their limit after an exercise on a mountainside in January 2016 left six dead and seven injured. The group of 52 soldiers came from a southern French unit of the male-only force which is made up of largely foreign recruits. Continue reading...