An elite French gendarme was shot dead in France's overseas territory of French Guiana in South America while taking part in an operation against illegal gold mining, the French presidency said ...

Taubira took a particular interest in the deaths of the two soldiers, as she herself is from Guiana, a French department in South America. Some 120,000 French gendarmes were involved in a large ...

In 2022, the French authorities carried out more than 1,000 patrols in the Guiana forest against illegal gold mining, seizing 59 kilograms (130 pounds) of mercury and five kilograms of gold ...