15 Minutes of War

In February 1976, Somalian rebels hijacked a school bus transporting 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. The captors drove the vehicle to a no‑man’s‑land on the border between Somalia and French territory, prompting the French Government to dispatch a newly formed elite squad for a rescue operation. Within hours, the highly trained team reached the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army had positioned itself behind barbed wire along the border, leaving the French unit with limited options. As the volatile situation unfolded, the French operatives devised a plan involving a simultaneous five‑man sniper assault intended to extract the children and teacher safely. The incident is based on true events.