Louis of Raguenel
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2:20 p.m., March 03, 2022
French people are getting organized to fight in Ukraine. A decision that is not without risk. According to information from Europe 1, the state services follow these departures with great attention, in particular the DGSI, the general direction of internal security.
If Emmanuel Macron affirmed that France was not at war against Russia, some French people are preparing to go and fight in Ukraine. A will that includes risks. According to information from Europe 1, the state services follow these departures with great attention, in particular the DGSI, the general direction of internal security.
No typical profile
It is she who is in charge, in conjunction with the DGSE, foreign intelligence and the DRM, military intelligence. A team from the DGSI closely follows Facebook groups of volunteers wishing to join the Ukrainian resistance. We are talking about around fifty French people at the moment. There is not really a typical profile. We find former soldiers as well as a handful still active from the Foreign Legion, followed by the DRSD, an intelligence service of the armies. The soldiers of the Foreign Legion who are preparing to leave for Ukraine have received exceptional authorization from their superiors, but only with the aim of bringing their families back and not to fight.
For the rest, we find both “humanitarian” profiles who want to help the Red Cross for example, but also French people with no history, or even people, in small numbers, known to the DGSI for their membership of movements ultra-right. It should be noted that these profiles appear divided between pro-Putin and pro-Ukrainians, fascinated by the “Azov battalion”, a unit known to welcome neo-Nazi militants, in the service of the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior.
No S file at this stage
Finally, the ultra-left is also well represented, out of the roughly fifty people followed by the DGSI, it is the profile that comes up the most: they would be around thirty for the moment. No S file has been detected at this stage. And as far as the law is concerned, the State services do not have the means to prevent departures. On the other hand, the returnees could be implicated for mercenarism or association of terrorist criminals if their actions in Ukraine contravene French laws.