The Russian mercenaries of this sulphurous paramilitary society are severely denounced, while Paris assured that they were “incompatible” with the maintenance of French soldiers deployed in Mali.
The presence of the Russian private security company Wagner in Mali was until now only a rumor regularly denied. Thursday evening, a press release signed by France and fifteen Western powers engaged in the anti-jihadist fight in the Sahel denounced ” the deployment of mercenaries Ongoing in Mali. “ We, international partners determined to support Mali and its people in their efforts to achieve lasting peace and stability and to fight terrorism, strongly condemn the deployment of mercenaries on Malian territory ”.
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According to a French source, this setting up of Wagner’s men, a group considered to be a false nose of Moscow, is patent. Movements would be sensitive at Bamako international airport: ” Today we can see repeated air rotations on site with military transport planes belonging to the Russian army, installations at Bamako airport allowing the reception of a…