“I think and pay tribute to the 58 French soldiers who died defending Mali against the Islamist terrorist groups”, added the official.
In the film, released in France at the end of 2022, French troops appear as if they were going to loot resources from the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.
The film shows imprisoned French soldiers kneeling in front of the Wakandan queen, wearing uniforms similar to those worn by French forces deployed in Mali.
Also, in the plot, a French minister must answer for her actions before the UN.
The French government admits the freedom of an “artistic work”, which it does not censor or want to withdraw from the exhibition, Defense Ministry sources said, according to the French news agency AFP.
But he understands that “there can be no revisionism on France’s recent action in Mali,” the sources stressed.
“We intervened at the request of the country to fight against the terrorist armed groups, far from the story told in the film, which is that of a French army that arrives to plunder its natural resources,” they added.
France is “particularly” taking care of its image in West Africa after the military juntas that rule de facto Mali and Burkina Faso demanded the withdrawal of French troops deployed in the Sahel region since 2013 to fight against armed jihadist organizations, according to AFP .
Source: Ambito
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