"I lost the love of my life". Questioned Sunday by BFMTV, Florence Charton, the companion of the soldier Cédric de Pierrepont, killed in the night from Thursday to Friday in Burkina Faso during the operation of release of the French hostages kidnapped in Benin, describes "a perfect man", and tells the projects of the couple before the tragedy.
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"I had been waiting for it forever (...) I was ready for the absence, but I was not ready to lose it", explains the one who shared the life of the member of the commando Hubert, elite unit of the French Navy, killed during the same operation as Alain Bertoncello. But, she adds, "he was really a fighter, I know if he had to do it again, he would go back."
"It would have been an extraordinary father"
And the young woman to describe the projects of the couple. "We bought a house that we could not live together because of work, we were trying to make a baby". "It would have been an extraordinary father," she says, "it kills me that he did not have time to be a daddy."
"He was a good guy, he loved everything," says Florence Charton. "Before he left, we had a meal together with the companions, like a group of buddies who are leaving in colo.They gave that impression because they love what they do, they are so thoroughly and they have values that you can not even suspect, you can not really understand what's going on in their heads. "