The French Ministry of Defense announced today, Monday, the death of a French soldier after he was injured while training Iraqi forces, in the second death incident within days.
The Ministry said in a statement, “The soldier (Nicolas Latourte) died of injuries he sustained while training the Iraqi forces,” noting that “his injury was serious and he was transported by helicopter to the city of Erbil, where he died.”
The French government said that a French soldier on a training mission in Iraq died (yesterday, Sunday).
“Nicolas Latourte lost his life in the line of duty,” President Emmanuel Macron said in a post on the X social networking platform, formerly known as Twitter.
Defense Minister Sebastien Licorne said in a post that the death occurred (on Sunday). He added that Latourte was on a mission to train the Iraqi armed forces to “fight terrorism”.
On the eighteenth of August, a French soldier died as a result of a traffic accident in Iraq, where he “was participating in a training mission for the Iraqi armed forces,” according to what President Emmanuel Macron announced. At that time, the President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, issued a telegram of condolence on the death of the French soldier, and confirmed that the Kurdish people appreciate the support and assistance of the French military forces within the framework of the International Coalition against ISIS, which provides support and aid to Iraq and the Kurdistan Region in order to completely eliminate terrorism.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency