The high Béar, the heart of a planned attack foiled by the authorities, is a fortification dating to the late nineteenth century overlooking the Mediterranean in the hills above Port-Vendres (Pyrénées-Orientales) and Army uses today as commando training center. Built on a military building dating from the time of Vauban, the construction of this stronghold not far from Spain, overlooking the sea at 200 meters above sea level had been undertaken to lock the borders of France.
The fort, now disused, is used as a base by the National Commando Training Centre (CNEC) of the Army for training exercises and “hardening”. The fort has been fitted out to accommodate commandos crossed paths with obstacles of all kinds. This center trains each year some 3,000 interns – students of initial training schools staff or military units – as well as journalists wishing to be trained in “harsh environments” from the urban guerrilla risk of kidnapping in a war zone.
“A personal grudge against the chief of detachment”
A group of fifty instructors, equipped for water exercises and mountain designs and experimenting with techniques to improve operational readiness of the Army with particular shooting or combat events melee. Supporting his education on the legacy of commando units, the CNEC motto that of the first of them, the “shock battalion”: “In still points,” the center’s website. According to a source close to the investigation, three young men now in custody would have considered military to kill and decapitate the head of the detachment.
The oldest of the trio “could be Béar posted high “before being reformed in the Navy for health problems, the source said. His contract with the Army ended January 21, 2014, according to the source close to the case, who added he could “feed a personal grudge against the detachment commander.”
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