Check Point Calvi - scenario - english version

Check point Calvi Ivory Coast, North of Duekoue, 6th of January 2003 2nd REP’s 1st and 4th companies had been sent in the Republic of the Ivory Coast in order to reinforce French Unicorn Operation military deployment, allowing a better control of the... More

Check point Calvi Ivory Coast, North of Duekoue, 6th of January 2003 2nd REP’s 1st and 4th companies had been sent in the Republic of the Ivory Coast in order to reinforce French Unicorn Operation military deployment, allowing a better control of the cease fire between the rebels and the loyalists. This would ease the diplomatic negotiations that would take place from the 15th to the 24th of January 2003. Further complications were raised by the involvement of a third party, the “Great West Rebels”. Little is known of the goals of this uncontrollable force, reinforced by several liberians and infamous for the mischief they had committed in Sierra Leone. Nevertheless, since December 21st, several attempts to break french military control had been committed. The morning of the 6th of January, a group of rebels were headed towards checkpoint “Calvi” on Duekoue’s road, seemingly to contact the detachment of Foreign Legion soldiers. But it was only a cheap trick, for ano Less