One of the first phrases that ex-corporal Alex Held learned when he joined the French Foreign Legion in 2015 was “pas vu, pas pris”, which can be loosely translated as 'if you don't get seen, you won't get caught'. Unfortunately for the young American soldier, this old saying came back to haunt him when he made a formal complaint to his superiors that his immediate boss, warrant officer Antal A., had repeatedly tried to touch and kiss him in 2018 and 2019.
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