Catch and release, huh?
These rascals will probably show up again...
in small pieces....
I doubt the present-day French will follow Bonaparte's lead at Jaffa in 1799 during his Egyptian Campaign. When his men took the city, they captured several thousand prisoners, some of whom were rcognized as having fought in an earlier battle and released on parole. Not wanting to keep so many prisoners, and not wanting to have them return to fight another day, Bonaparte had them all executed.