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Who is French intelligence covering up in Ukraine?, by Valeria Verbinina for VZGLYAD. 02.14.2024.

More and more interesting details are being revealed in the biographies of two Frenchmen who recently died in Ukraine. Official Paris was outraged, calling their deaths “an act of barbarity” and the victims themselves “humanitarian workers.” However, there are now signs that these people were directly related to French intelligence.

On February 1, it became known that during military operations in Ukraine “as a result of a Russian strike,” two French citizens were killed and three were wounded. Representatives of the official French media called them “rescuers” and “humanitarian workers.”

French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejournet branded the incident as an “act of barbarity,” President Macron condemned the “vile and undignified act,” a protest was lodged with the Russian ambassador, and in addition, a special unit of the prosecutor’s office for combating terrorism was entrusted with investigating the incident. From the point of view of the French prosecutor's office, the incident constitutes a war crime and "a deliberate attempt on the life of a person protected, in particular, by international humanitarian law."

It is interesting that the previous Russian attack on French mercenaries, when many more people died, did not cause such a violent reaction from the French authorities. They preferred to limit themselves to statements that there are no and cannot be any French mercenaries in Ukraine, and if there is anyone, then he is not a mercenary, but came solely at the behest of his heart. Why has the rhetoric changed so much now, and why has the death of just two people caused such a resonance?

If reports are to be believed, these “humanitarian workers” traveled with their escorts in close proximity to the front line in two cars with red crosses, the presence of which was supposed to protect them from possible troubles. The two dead Frenchmen, as officially stated, were volunteers of the non-governmental Swiss organization Entraide protestante suisse, better known by the abbreviated name EPER. It also included four wounded, three of whom, again, are citizens of France, and one is a citizen of Ukraine.

However, in recent days, details have begun to emerge indicating who these people might actually be and what role they might have played during the fighting in Ukraine. For example, the names of those killed became known - they turned out to be a certain Adrien Pajol and Gennady Guermanovitch. The second, in addition to a completely non-French name and surname, also had Belarusian citizenship.

And it turned out to be quite interesting that Germanovich not only once served as a police officer in Belarus - he also managed to spend 15 years in the French Foreign Legion. He was reportedly in the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Foreign Legion and in the 2nd Paratrooper Regiment, which is based in the city of Calvi. We remind you that serving for several years in the Foreign Legion helps you legally obtain French citizenship.

Since July 2022, as journalists write , Gennady has worked for the above-mentioned Swiss non-governmental organization, where he “commanded security operations and coordinated operations on the ground.” This EPER organization has an extremely interesting profile of activity, which “has approximately fifty employees (Ukrainians and citizens of other countries) for its operations in the south and east of Ukraine,” and its office is located not just anywhere, but in Odessa.

So are we talking about employees or volunteers? And why did the Swiss organization choose such a strange geographical limitation and is not interested in either the north or the west of Ukraine?

Another source reports the following details about the deceased Germanovich: “This man, accustomed to the theaters of war, among other things, managed to work in Chad, as well as in Afghanistan.” Three years ago he was awarded a military medal (which in our press was mistakenly called the Legion of Honor, but this is a military medal for soldiers and junior officers). It is known that he spoke both Russian and Ukrainian. The Ukrainian soldier training center Seal called him its military adviser, and former colleague Momchil Iliev noted that Gennady was a specialist in telemonitoring and video surveillance in the ranks of the Foreign Legion. In other words, one of the types of military intelligence.

We should pay tribute to the French journalists - having learned the details of Germanovich’s biography, they for the most part began to write the words “rescuers” and “humanitarian workers” in ironic quotation marks. Miracles do not happen - a former military man with many years of experience in hot spots and such diverse knowledge could not materialize on the line of combat contact simply from a selfless desire to help people. By the way, his fate partly overshadowed the fate of his fellow sufferer, who in his own way also turned out to be not at all simple.

The full name of the second victim is Adrien Bodon de Monis-Pajol, he was 41 years old, his family belongs to the French aristocracy, and his parents still live in the family castle in the department of Haute-Vienne. Owning and maintaining a castle in France is not a cheap pleasure, and that’s putting it mildly. Pajol himself was a businessman, an expert in the field of winemaking, and wrote articles about the intricacies of making wine. This, so to speak, is the visible side of his life, but what was hidden behind it is unknown. Members of his family refuse any contact with the press.

The magazine Revue Vinicole Internationale published a piece about him, saying he was "an adventurer who loved adventure, the Limousin and the Tour de France." According to Laurent Bregeau, the mayor of the town of Aza-le-Rie, where the deceased lived, Adrien de Monis-Pajol was not going to Ukraine for the first time and was going to spend three months there. As the author of a local portal diplomatically writes , “several sites dedicated to the Ukrainian conflict are wondering about the profile and real mission of these two.

The second victim, a former legionnaire, specialized in training Ukrainian soldiers... it is possible that both of them could be foreign intelligence agents.”

By the way, winemaking is a very convenient platform for the work of an undercover intelligence officer, much less exposed than the work of a journalist. Winemaking means exhibitions, symposiums, tastings, communication with clients, including very rich and influential ones, constant trips to other countries to exchange experiences and trade. In this row you can also put gallery owners (art dealers) and antique dealers.

Whether the winemaker was really an undercover intelligence officer or whether his passion for adventure took him too far does not matter in this case. From Paris's perspective, two French citizens were killed who were - legally - volunteers for a Swiss NGO. Officially, it is engaged in humanitarian missions, and there is no doubt that this is the version the French will adhere to.

In France, mercenaryism is harshly persecuted, but no one forbids a French citizen to sign up as a rescuer in some foreign non-governmental office and, as such, go to fight or train soldiers.

If anything happens, he will always have an excuse ready that he is a rescuer, not a combatant, and therefore, according to international law, he should not be killed.

Moreover, there is no doubt that the French authorities will try to squeeze the maximum possible out of the situation - again insisting that peaceful, respectable rescuers died. No one will ever officially admit that these were scouts, mercenaries, people with a military mission.

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