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Fryatt was then taken away to Bruges to stand trial on charges of being franc-tireur - a civilian engaged in hostile military activity.

Teenage fighter Moreau was attacked as a "franc-tireur" or "free shooter", as a civilian taking up arms.

He was tried in Bruges on charges of being franc-tireur - a civilian engaged in hostile military activity.

There might have been a franc-tireur behind every tree.

This is one of the many nefarious franc-tireur proceedings of the British merchant marine against our war vessels, and it has found a belated but merited expiation.