7,000 Sentinel soldiers will be deployed in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 60% more than today.
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Ministry of the Armed Forces
They are currently 3,000 deployed on the ground in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
They will soon be 7,000.
The number of Sentinel patrol soldiers will increase by 60% in the region, the Ministry of the Armed Forces announced on Monday.
A deployment that follows the triggering of the attack emergency level of the Vigipirate plan, decided by the government after the attack in Nice.
“This increase in the posture of vigilance enables the Armies to strengthen their response to the threat of militarized terrorism.
The soldiers are indeed engaged every day to protect France and the French, in particular in front of the places of worship and in this new school year in front of the schools ”, he specifies.
The soldiers engaged in this operation are trained, among other things, in the field of combat shooting, first aid gestures and close operational intervention techniques.
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