Royal Marines Sent Home From Kosovo after Strip-Club Booze up
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Royal Marines Sent Home From Kosovo after Strip-Club Booze up
PRISTINA, Jan 11, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Three British Royal Marine
Commandos in the Kosovo multinational peacekeeping force were sent home
after getting drunk in a Pristina lap-dancing bar, their unit's spokesman
said Thursday.
The incident happened on December 1 last year after the three slipped away
from the rest of their unit after an evening of entertainment laid on by
military authorities, Lieutenant Allan Youp told AFP.
A patrol was sent to find them and discovered them drinking and enjoying the
floor show in a lap-dancing bar. They were arrested and later sent back to
their base in Arbroath, Scotland, to be charged with drunkenness and
breaking the marines' orders not to leave base without permission, he said.
Two of the commandos were young soldiers from 45 Commando Royal Marines, the
third was a British army commando gunner attached to the marines during
their six-month tour in Pristina, capital of the breakaway Yugoslav
province.
But Youp denied a report in a British daily tabloid, citing a Ministry of
Defense spokesman, that one of the men had himself stripped naked in the
bar, and that the others were slumped semi-conscious when found.
The men were in uniform but unarmed, he said.
Last year a British army lieutenant colonel attached to the command staff of
the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo was sent home in disgrace after
military police caught him in a notorious Pristina brothel.
The marines have given military back-up to several UN police raids on
brothels in the Pristina area, many of which are centers of trafficking and
staffed by kidnapped eastern-European sex slaves. ((c) 2001 Agence France
Presse)