"Poisoning risks" targeting the military? Caution

Soldiers from Operation Sentinel in Marseille, November 3, 2020 (illustration) -

• Have soldiers been targeted by poisoning attempts by take-out food deliverers? 

• This is according to a viral email on social networks, which was allegedly sent within the army.

• If the Ministry of the Armed Forces confirms

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  , he specifies that it is part of a process of usual vigilance and, above all, that no attempt at poisoning of this kind has been proven at this stage. . 

In this period of tension in France - between the recent terrorist attacks and the coronavirus epidemic - should the military be worried about an additional threat specifically targeting them?

This is what the screenshot of an e-mail with the evocative subject suggests: "Risk of 'poisoning' military food."

The army's email circulating on social networks.

- screenshot / Facebook

“Following several events that have occurred in recent weeks, the competent services are alerting to the risk of poisoning military personnel.

Indeed, several incidents have been identified, at the national level, during meal deliveries via digital platforms and online delivery which operate by carriers such as Uber [Eats], Deliveroo.

In particular, excrements and pieces of glass were discovered.

Threats were made by delivery men against the military, ”we can read in the first lines of this message relayed on social networks.

After calling for waiting for the "results of the national investigation into the volume and extent of these threats", the email delivers some "recommendations" for use in remote orders, such as "do not report your military "," not to be delivered at the entrance of the military compound "or" not to collect your order alone ".

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, the Ministry of the Armed Forces confirms the authenticity of this message, which was indeed sent to the military personnel of a French barracks.

But he specifies that its content does "not reflect a proven reality" since "no fact" of poisoning [is] known at this stage ".

No proven case of "similar attempt" or "judicial denunciation" has also been reported to him.

This email is “a very usual and recurring vigilance process.

It was written at the end of last week.

Its drafting was not intended to be made public, being a security measure for our soldiers, ”specifies the Ministry of the Armed Forces.

In fact, these recommendations, which have become viral on social networks, are rather the result of an excess of zeal on the part of the local management at the origin of the message, after a simple "verbal altercation" which occurred in "the North of France. last week ”between a delivery man and soldiers.

echoed an incident between a Deliveroo delivery man and a soldier whom he allegedly threatened with an attack by delivering his order.

“The local military authorities, as a precaution, have decided to ban the use of delivery platforms for personnel housed in military control.

But in no case have the facts of attempted poisoning been declared or established in connection with this incident, ”continues the Ministry of the Armed Forces.

And it is in this context that a "call for vigilance was sent to the other [defense] zones" without them having been confronted, to the knowledge of the ministry, with such incidents.

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