"Red-blue-white-red": the boat of French pilots at the July 14 parade

Red-blue-white-red ? The Alphajet of the prestigious French Patrol changed the colors of the French flag when one of the nine planes issued red smoke, instead of blue in the Paris skyline during the parade July 14th.

Although at the beginning some French journalists said that the red symbolized "blood spilled" by soldiers killed during the year, Lieutenant-Colonel Maud Grolier confirmed on public television France 2 that was an error . As he explains, "they have misplaced the colors of the plane".

This is not the only incident of the parade: two Republican Guard bikers collided amidst a choreography.

Some 4,300 members of the armed forces marched on the Champs-Elysées in front of President Emmanuel Macron and thousands of spectators for nearly two hours. The parade also included 250 horses and 220 vehicles, 64 aircraft and 30 helicopters, as well as guest troupes from Japan and Singapore.

On July 14, France remembers the taking of the Bastille, the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution. 1789. The celebrations paid tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack in Nice two years ago during which an Islamic extremist crashed and killed 86 people with a truck.