As the AALE (Fellowship of Foreign Legion veterans) of Nimes has informed, roughly 300 legionnaires of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) of the Foreign Legion left its base and has been engaged in Operation Serval in Mali last week.

2e REI left its base in Nimes for Paris on May 15. Next day, the regiment landed in Africa. Between the 17th and 20th May, it was already providing protection of the French engineer military elements of the 31e Régiment du génie (31e RG) and 511e régiment du train (511e RT) which were participating in bridge restoring in Tassiga, a village 150km south-east of Gao in south-eastern Mali.

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