Posted on 06/09/2016 5:37:07 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect
Two men tried to rob a McDonald's in eastern France — only to be violently thwarted by 11 off-duty French special forces commandos who were having lunch there, authorities said.
The two men stormed into a McDonald's in Ecole-Valentin, near Besançon, about 9 p.m. Sunday, France Bleu radio and the French newspaper Connexion reported, quoting the local prosecutor, Edwige Roux-Morizot.
Not spotted by the robbers, however, were 11 men eating lunch who are members of Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale, or GIGN, the French armed forces' elite counterterrorism unit.
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LOL - great story.
It should be a crime just to eat in a McD in France.
Guess the nationality of the robbers?
Bet you they were not Icelanders!)
Making me proud of my 25% French lineage, GIGN!
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