Mali: the disappointment of the families of soldiers killed during Operation Barkhane

It’s a wound from six years ago that the news of the day comes to revive a little more. After Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of the withdrawal of military forces from Mali, the families hope that the sacrifice of the soldiers who died during the operation Barchanis not in vain. Celine’s brother Noblet died in Mali in 2016. Damian Noblet received the nation’s tribute at Les Invalides, along with 59 other French soldiers who lost their lives. Today, Celine feels “disappointment, bitterness, a touch of anger too, misunderstanding perhaps. All that to get to what today we stop “.

This morning in front of the press, the president did not want to talk about failure, assuring that the state Malian would not have collapsed without the intervention of French forces. According to Anthony Glaserjournalist specializing in Africa, the operation Barchan “was mission impossible. She did not respond at all to the fight against terrorism which is done with special forces”.