(23 Apr 1997) T/I: 10:55:01


The French ambassador in Sarajevo and a French division of SFOR on Tuesday (22/4) and Wednesday (23/4) paid tribute to 68 French soldiers killed during the Bosnian war.
Families of the deceased soldiers travelled to Bosnia to take part in memorial services. A church mass was held at Sarajevo cathedral in honour of the 68 French Army victims in Bosnia and monuments were opened at Sarajevo's airport and outside the French embassy and
A special ceremony was held at the airport in honour of three soldiers who were killed when the Serb army shelled Sarajevo in 1995.

SHOWS:

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA 22/4
WS Sarajevo airport;
CU sign Sarajevo airport;
MS families of the dead arriving;
MS French soldiers with wreath;
WS bugler and troops;
WS soldiers;
MS families with wreath;
CU monument;
MS wreaths;

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA 23/4
WS monument in grounds of French Embassy;
WS soldiers;
soldiers with wreath;
CU monument;
laying wreath;
CU general saluting PULL OUT to MS ceremony;
CU soldier PULL OUT TO WS ceremony;
WS Sarajevo cathedral;
WS church mass;
VS mass;
WS families walking;
SOT Jean Ciarreau, father of dead soldier in French: "We have arrived in Sarajevo to pay a tribute on the two year anniversay of killing of three soldiers at the airport in Sarajevo and at the same time on the commemoration for all french soldiers killed in former Yugoslavia as members of the international forces";
SOT Bernard Ardoan, father of dead soldier in French (man is blind): "I can't see but finally i can feel the ground where my son had been killed"
VS family members crying.

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