The ” posture “Soldiers in power in Bamako” jeopardizes Operation Barkhane “, warns in One the newspaper Le Figaro. The posture? No less than four pens of this daily, including that of an editorialist, have dipped into the same inkwell to develop and comment on this challenge to France by Bamako (according to this newspaper) launched.
Starting with a ” decryption of the situation in Mali, where, referring to the tens of thousands of people gathered during the giga gathering eight days ago in Bamako, Le Figaro notes that it is in the street that lives “ the only legitimacy of the Malian junta.
Recalling the television interview with Choguel Maïga (presented by Le Figaro like a ” pan-Africanist with a fastidious sovereignism », and during which the Malian Prime Minister demanded the « proofreading of the defense agreement between Paris and Bamako), this daily presents this text as essential to the functioning of the French intervention, and Bamako knows it », complete Le Figaro, to which a source, evoking the delicate subject of Malian airspace, is serene in reporting the conclusion simple “deconfliction” agreements to avoid “qthat several devices are found without knowing it in the same zone (…) But Paris recognizes it. Without a clear and shared political framework, it is difficult to imagine continuing the military intervention “, States Le Figaro.
“Barkhane” in the sands
But beyond the question of the overflight of Malian territory, it is the question of the presumed presence on the spot of the Russian group Wagner which explains these diplomatic tensions. In doubt, Le Figaro confines itself to formulating that the junta “Pact with the Russian mercenaries of the Wagner group “. Waiting for, “ it must be noted that the Islamist threat has not receded in the region, extending on the contrary towards the south, as far as Côte d’Ivoire and Benin, he admits. At the time of the forced assessment, this long ordeal does not end in a military victory, but in a political defeat. “. So ? So to explain what this newspaper calls “ the Malian trap in which France is silted up, Le Figaro sighs: “ we do not help others against their will “.
Gilbert Collard’s Rubicon
The electoral campaign in France, with a new rallying from the Rassemblement National for Éric Zemmour, that of the lawyer Gilbert Collard. After those of Jérôme Rivière and Damien Rieu, who left the party of Marine Le Pen to join that of Éric Zemmour Reconquête!, after the rallies in the same direction of the militants Les Républicains Guillaume Peltier and Laurence Trochu, it will be this Saturday at tour of Gilbert Collard, announced yesterday The Parisian, taken up in the evening by the television channel BFMTV but also by the site of the Figaro.
According to The Parisian, ” Gilbert Collard would have made known his eagerness and it was finally agreed that he could participate in (a) public meeting (today in Cannes, south-east of France) whose theme is precisely “the union of the rights “.
Elected MEP three years ago under the colors of the National Rally, Gilbert Collard “ will announce its support for “Reconquest! during the meeting of the candidate for the presidential election this Saturday, in Cannes “, also ensures the site of the Figaro.
The consent of the French to the vaccination pass
The vaccination pass which will be put in place the day after tomorrow receives the consent of the French, provided that it is suspended as soon as possible. According to a survey Odoxa for Le Figaro, 62% of French people say they are in favor of this system. But 71% of them would like this tool to be ” automatically suspended as soon as the health situation improves.