Russian mercenaries try to accuse the French army of abuses

Images, filmed by drone, by French soldiers, show a dozen individuals throwing sand on a mass grave, after the departure of French troops from Mali. This video was declassified by the French army in response to an attempted manipulation. The soldiers of the video would be Russian mercenaries who work with the Malian army. One of them films the buried corpses.

This scene was then broadcast on social networks by a Malian who accuses the French army. “This is what the French left behind when they left the base at Gossi”he says on Twitter. On April 19, the French army left Mali as part of the departure of the force Barchan. Due to tensions with the Malian junta, the French army had filmed the area when it left. The General Staff denounces a “maneuver to discredit of the Barkhane force”orchestrated by the mercenaries russian of Wagner, who would be a thousand in Mali.