Question 2225 — defense

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Mrs. Muriel Ressiguier alerts Mr. Prime Minister so that France cooperates with the justice system of Burkina Faso regarding the assassination of Thomas Sankara. Thirty years ago, on October 15, 1987, the President of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara was assassinated, allowing the arrival of dictator Blaise Compaoré to power. Thomas Sankara, historical figure, leading African leader of integrity, was a precursor of the fight for the defense of the environment (end of excessive logging, awareness campaign regarding the use of gas, end of bush fires) and the Burkinabe revolution has become a model of development. President Sankara was assassinated because he denounced the odious debt and the diktat of Western powers, but also because he initiated a bold and proactive policy (redistribution of wealth, liberation of women, decentralization, fight against corruption, fight against the encroachment of the desert), while working for pan-Africanism. In 2016, a request for commission of request was issued by the Burkinabé justice system in order to investigate possible French complicity and to lift defense secrecy on the French archives relating to the assassination of Thomas Sankara. This has so far remained unanswered, blocking investigations into the international complicity from which the assassins would have benefited. In 2014, a few months after ordering the exfiltration of dictator Blaise Compaoré by the army, President François Hollande committed to declassifying these archives. This commitment remained unfulfilled. The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, plans to visit Burkina Faso in the fall of 2017. It is time for the French state to lift defense secrecy on archives concerning this case. Indeed, the protection of national defense secrecy aims to “ensure the safeguarding of the fundamental interests of the Nation in the areas of defense, internal security and the protection of financial, economic or industrial activities, and the protection of the scientific and cultural heritage of France”. Article 413-9 of the penal code stipulates that “present a character of national defense secrecy [...] processes, objects, documents, information, computer networks or files of interest to national defense which have been the subject of protection measures intended to restrict their dissemination or access. However, 30 years later, the archives concerning this assassination no longer correspond to this definition. This is why she asks him to immediately refer the matter to the Defense Secret Commission. (CSDN) to declassify the French archives concerning the assassination of Thomas Sankara and thus contribute to finally justice being done.

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