On the night of September 27, 1995, Bob Denard landed on the Comoros with 30 men in Zodiac inflatable boats in an attempted coup against president Said Mohamed Djohar, Abdallah ’ s successor.

On 16 January 1977 an attempted coup d ' état took place in Benin with a group of armed men led by renowned French mercenary " Colonel " Bob Denard took place in Benin.

Their response was a ( third ) coup resulting in the death of President Abdallah, in which Denard and his men were probably involved.

On September 28, 1995 Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries took over the Comoros islands in a coup ( named operation Kaskari by the mercenaries ) against President Djohar.

The last time was in 1995, when he staged a coup which failed ( the military of the French Government intervened to oust Denard ).

In 1989, fearing a probable coup d ' état, president Ahmed Abdallah signed a decree ordering the Presidential Guard, led by Bob Denard, to disarm the armed forces.

With his lieutenant Dominique Malacrino, he had to face charges in May 1999 for his role in the 1989 coup, in which, according to the French prosecution, president Ahmed Abdallah was killed on the orders of Denard because he was about to remove Denard as head of the presidential guard.

Denard was arrested in 1995 when he launched a fourth coup, Operation Kaskari, against Saïd Djohar, in the Comoros.

In 2001, Guido Papalia, Italian attorney of Verona, prosecuted Denard for having tried to recruit mercenaries in the far-right Italian movement ( through Franco Nerozzi ) in order to make a coup against Colonel Azali Assoumani, the current president, also opposed to his return to the Comoros.

In his autobiography, Bob Denard has mentioned that Emile Derlin Zinsou was to be reinstated in power in the aftermath of the coup, and that he was in fact waiting on board the mercenaries ' plane that fled the country when the coup attempt failed.

A French mercenary by the name of Bob Denard, arrived in Comoros at dawn on 13 May 1978, and removed Soilih from power.

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An adamant anti-Communist, Denard then took part in many anti-colonialist struggles, simultaneously on his own behalf and on the behalf of the French state.

Denard missed out on mercenary activity in Biafra during the Nigerian civil war during the late 1960s.

According to Xavier Renou, author of a book on private military contractors, Denard foreshadowed the transition between traditional mercenaries to contemporary private military contractors, creating a small army during his stay in the Comoros in the 1980s.

The prosecution said Ahmed Abdallah was shot on orders from Denard during a faked attack on his palace on the night of November 26, 1989.

On a windy day in East Lansing, Denard Robinson led the Wolverines to a touchdown on the opening drive.

This occurred on August 3, 1975 when Soilih, whose adherents were barely armed, hired French mercenary Bob Denard to overthrow Abdallah.

Denard fought there until the secessionist movement led by Moise Tshombe collapsed in January 1963.

After about eighteen months Denard returned to the Congo to take employment under Moise Tshombe who was now the prime minister of the central government in Leopoldville from July 1964 till October 1965 when was dismissed by President Joseph Kasa Vubu.

Besides the military, Denard established his own company SOGECOM, for both the security and construction, and seemed to profit by the arrangement.

* May 12 – May 13 – A group of mercenaries led by Bob Denard oust Ali Soilih in the Comoros ; 10 local soldiers are killed.

Denard served for two years in the Congo battling Simba rebels supporters of the late Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, who had been murdered in Katanga in 1961 after having been overthrown by rival politicians and severely tortured while in transit.

A year later Denard sided with Katangan separatists and Belgian mercenaries led by Jean Schramme in a revolt in eastern Congo.

Helped by Denard, Ahmed Abdallah took the presidency back.

A few days later, Bob Denard was evacuated to South Africa by French paratroopers.

Bob Denard was brought back to France by the French DGSE intelligence agency for trial.

In June 2006 Denard, who by then was suffering from Alzheimer's, was found guilty of " belonging to a gang who conspired to commit a crime ", and was given a five-year suspended jail term.

" In July 2007, he was sentenced by the Court of Appeal to four years of prison ( one firm, three suspended ).< ref name = AFP >" Décès de l ' ancien mercenaire Bob Denard ", Agence France-Presse, October 14, 2007 on-line

On May 13, 1978, Soilih was finally overthrown by a fifty-member European mercenary unit, hired by exiled former leader Ahmed Abdallah in France and led by French Colonel Bob Denard.

* 1929 – Bob Denard, French soldier and mercenary ( d. 2007 )

Under the reign of Abdallah, Denard was commander of the Presidential Guard ( PG ) and de facto ruler of the country.

When in 1981 François Mitterrand was elected president Denard lost the support of the French intelligence service, but he managed to strengthen the link between SA and the Comoros.

South Africa and the French government subsequently forced Denard and his mercenaries to leave the islands in 1989.

Bob Denard began to take measures to stop the coming invasion.

Denard however ordered his mercenaries not to fight.

By 3: 00 p. m. the next day Bob Denard and his mercenaries had surrendered.

Denard was taken to France and jailed.

In March 1996, following presidential elections, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, a member of the civilian government that Denard had tried to set up in October 1995, became president.

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They arrest Bob Denard and his mercenaries and take Denard to France ; Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes the interim president.

Denard forms a new government.

* Bob Denard who was involved in numerous African campaigns in many countries, often with the covert support of France.

At the same time Bob Denard commanded the French speaking " 6 Commando ", " Black Jack " Schramme commanded " 10 Commando " and William " Rip " Robertson commanded a company of anti-Castro Cuban exiles.

Colonel Bob Denard ( April 7, 1929 – October 13, 2007 ), born Gilbert Bourgeaud, was a French soldier and mercenary.

After having served with the French Navy in Indochina and in French Algeria, Denard served as a colonial policeman in Morocco from 1952 to 1957.