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A fact from Carré d'As IV incident appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 July 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that on September 2, 2008, Somali pirates seized the yacht Carré d'As IV, prompting a French commando operation?
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I don't know that you need to specify that Sarkozy was "the then-President" - I imagine it should be clear that he was the president at the time, not before or after the incident.
Link Royal Marines in the caption (and maybe specify that they're British
Additional useful links would be Mast (sailing), rocket launcher (I'd assume an RPG-7, but your sources may not be that specific) assault rifle (presumably an AKM of some variety, but again, the sources probably don't specify)
Convert the metric lengths of the vessels mentioned in the article