Hazing can sometimes be extremely traumatic.
Like the one suffered by a fighter pilot in March 2019. Assigned to the Solenzara base in Corsica, the soldier received a violent and dangerous reception: his colleagues tied him up, blindfolded, to a pole in a field of firing as Mirages practiced.
The story is mind blowing.
A fighter pilot assigned to the Solenzara base in Corsica was greeted in an extremely brutal manner, revealed the daily
La Provence
on Friday morning
.
As a welcome, the member spent twenty minutes tied to a pole in the middle of a shooting range.
Around him, Mirages carried out live fire.
"These are violence of incredible gravity", judge, the victim's lawyer at the microphone of Europe 1.
"It's extremely dangerous, it's intolerable"
"I don't know if we played Russian roulette with him. But in any case, we seriously endangered him. And we severely traumatized him," says master Frédéric Berna.
The humiliations began as soon as the soldier arrived on Corsican soil.
The driver then finds himself tied up, his face hidden by a black bag, before being thrown unceremoniously in the back of a pickup for a trip at full speed on rough roads.
Direction the place of his ordeal.
He then spent twenty minutes in hell under shellfire, still hooded.
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The man is also strapped to a pylon marked with impacts and surmounted by a red cross, a target intended for the air training of fighter pilots.
The soldier was "tied in the direction of rotation of the fragments. They could have cut his leg or an arm", condemns the lawyer.
Before adding: "it is extremely dangerous, it is intolerable".
The victim could not see anything, but could hear the comings and goings of fighter jets and the shaking of explosions about a kilometer away.
A situation of total anguish.
His torturers seem then animated by a certain feeling of impunity: they film and photograph the whole scene.
Two years to speak out against the Grande Muette
These facts date back to March 2019. It therefore took two years for this soldier to break the law of silence.
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Contacted, the spokesperson for the Air Force condemns these actions.
An internal disciplinary process was initiated several months ago.
In the chain of command, soldiers have been identified and very severely punished.
"We hit hard," we told Europe 1, without further details.