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TIL two Bulgarian alfalfa farmers captured 5 suspected thieves who turned out to be French commandos on a secret training mission.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jacqu...k9lvpmf52h

FRENCH spymasters are hanging their heads in shame after a team of undercover agents proved no match for a couple of wary Bulgarian peasants.

In an exploit worthy of Inspector Clouseau, five officers on a training mission for the elite action service commando of the DGSE — the French equivalent of MI6 — came across the brothers Slavi and Vasko Tsonev watching over their alfalfa crop near the border with Romania.

Two of the officers had been parachuted into Romania and had travelled 25 miles to their rendezvous near the village of Koilvotsi. Their fake target was three other French officers who had entered Bulgaria using false passports.

The Tsonev brothers, carrying wooden boards, and their escort, a retired police officer with a 1950s Makarov pistol, thought the strangers, speaking a language they could not understand, were trying to steal their crop.

A fight broke out, punches were thrown and the ex-police officer shot at the Frenchmen. One was hit in the foot, another in the hand and one suffered a broken nose.

Villagers then discovered a jeep packed with medical equipment, a parachute, GPS devices and a digital camera. Questioned by police, the French agents claimed to be extreme sports enthusiasts.

Bulgarian officials spirited them back to France on a special flight. But the October 15 confrontation caused consternation in parliament in Sofia. Now the French defence ministry has confirmed an account of the failed mission as revealed last week by the Infosdefense website.

Three of the spies were beginners, according to Jean-Paul Ney, editor of Infosdefense. “As there is a nuclear power station nearby, I think the training exercise was to simulate an espionage mission,” he said.

As for the — unharmed — Tsonev brothers, they face prosecution over the incident. "