the French army defends itself against an attempt to manipulate Russian mercenaries

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 has been declassified by the French army in response to 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 Barkhane force. Due to tensions with the Malian junta, the French army filmed the area after it left. The General Staff denounces a “maneuver to discredit the Barkhane force”orchestrated by the Russian mercenaries of Wagner, who would be a thousand in Mali.