“ Barchan “prepares his facelift. According to The Parisian, the French force in the Sahel “ should change name ” and his “ model ” should “ soon ” transform ” much more than what was announced in June 2021, when it was a question of moving to a workforce of 2,500 to 3,000 soldiers on site next year. The Parisian also announces that a French HQ ” overseeing military cooperation in West Africa could (…) be created “.
One ” specialist ” quoted by this daily explains that it would be a question of passing the ” French presence under the radar “.
An imminent withdrawal of Barchan »? ” It’s not on the agenda at this point. “, we decided in fact, yesterday, at the staff, underlining “ that a total withdrawal from Mali would in any case take several months or even a whole year “.
A person close to the case admits in The Parisian than, “ if the modalities are still imprecise, it would be a question of putting an end to the “omnipotent and omniscient” deployments “, with “ helicopter force, light armored vehicles, French soldiers in the front line against jihadists often in small numbers and on motorcycles… but still harmful after nine years despite the elimination of several leaders “.
Bamako-Paris, the tone is rising
Still, these interrogations by way of the press on possible changes of ” Barchan came the day after the sensational declarations of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. “Vu the rupture of the political framework and the military framework, we cannot remain in the state “, said, yesterday, Jean-Yves Le Drian, without explicitly speaking of “ withdrawal “, while his Malian counterpart Abdoulaye Diop, yesterday, also kept on our antennas to ask for the departure of the French troops…” for the moment “, while hammering that” Mali does not exclude anything either “.
In The Parisian, a source explains that it is “ much less a rejection of the “Barkhane” operation than an expression of resentment against the former Malian power, which failed and to which France is assimilated because of its long presence. The problem is that this reading grid is taken up by the media and even by certain European officials… “, he sighs in The Parisian.
The temptation of the “Z”, Marion Maréchal persists and signs
Politics, with the right of the French right electrified by the temptation of Marion Maréchal to rally Éric Zemmour. After her first statements, the niece of the National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen has done it again. Yesterday was in The Parisian that Marion Maréchal said her desire to come and fill the sails of the Reconquest candidate! Today is in Le Figaro that the granddaughter of the founder of the National Front Jean-Marie Le Pen clarifies her thoughts.
“Consistency, vision, strategy make me lean towards Éric Zemmour. For sure, she says at Figaro. But there is a family subject. According to Marion Maréchal, “unlike Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour still has a lot of room for improvement”. And what she appreciates in the Reconquest! candidate is that Éric Zemmour “Fights for the disappearance of the sanitary cordon between the so-called “republican” right and us”, she adds in Le Figaro.
Rififi at Valérie Pécresse
He, in any case, has already decided to move away from the candidate of the Les Républicains party, Valérie Pécresse… He is Gilles Platret. The LR mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône Gilles Platret confirms to the Parisian that he has decided to ” take a step back “Compared to the campaign of Valérie Pécresse. Among other grievances that he addresses to the LR candidate, Gilles Platret, who is also vice-president of this party, criticizes Valérie Pécresse for not having “ not taken the measure of the challenge posed, according to him, Islamism to France », Reports The Parisian.