Talk:Lionel Dyck

Sewa Security Services
The photo shows Dyck wearing a Sewa Security Services patch. Sewa is a private security company owned by the Wagner Group and sanctioned by the US and EU. Are we sure this is a photo of Dyck? Was he associated with Wagner in Africa? The photo was taken in CAR as part of a presidential protection detail. 2600:6C40:5600:1916:298F:F43C:3867:2234 (talk) 20:41, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * as the uploader, would you be able to answer this please? I have to say looking at the IHarare source and his appearance on CNN, I can see why there might be an element of doubt. When I wrote this and updated it after his death, I found no evidence of any Wagner links so the IP might have a point. Would you be able to double-check just in case please?  The C of E God Save the King!  ( talk ) 21:00, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I have no personal or prior knowledge of this topic.
 * The picture does seem a good likeness with other pictures of Dyck. Details like the shape of the ear and nose seem to match but I notice that there appears to be a mole on the left cheek which does not appear elsewhere.  And I've looked further at the provenance of the picture.
 * The picture is also used in a France 24 report where the caption is Members of the Close Protection Unit for Central African Republic President Touadera, composed of Russian private security company operatives from Sewa Security, are seen in Berengo on August 4, 2018. © Florent Vergnes, AFP
 * It also appears in The Economist: Why African governments still hire mercenaries. There's no caption there while that article explains how the Dyck Advisory Group replaced the Wagner Group in Mozambique.
 * My impression now is that the Zim Eye went looking for a good picture of Dyck, found the Economist article and assumed that the picture there was a picture of Dyck.
 * So, this does seem likely to be a case of mistaken identity. In any case, as this is an agency photo, we shouldn't be using it.  And so I'm removing it from this article.
 * Andrew🐉(talk) 08:08, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I have now replaced the image with File:Lionel Dyck 1990.webp from . Andrew🐉(talk) 08:53, 3 June 2024 (UTC)