"paris match" photographer véronique de viguerie and reporter éric de la varenne managed to meet with a group of taliban claiming to have taken part in the ambush. two of them were photographed wearing french flak jackets, helmets and signature famas rifles, as well as french uniforms in camouflage centre europe patterns. the group leader, faruki, demanded that french forces depart afghanistan lest they be all killed. he stated that the french had crossed a red line by entering uzbin valley, which they consider to be their territory. he further claimed that no french had been tortured, and returned a watch taken on the body of a dead soldier as a token.