Question 37520 — foreign policy

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Mr. Jean-Paul Lecoq draws the attention of the Minister of the Armed Forces to the publication in the press in particular of new elements concerning the circumstances of the French military intervention in Mali in 2013. The disastrous consequences of the Franco-British military intervention in Libya in 2011 have plunged the country into chronic instability. Libya has since been divided between two rival powers, each claiming legitimacy and control of the territory. The country has become home to armed groups and mafias practicing human trafficking, slavery, arms and drug trafficking with impunity. All of this today constitutes a major source of regional destabilization and a recruiting ground for terrorist organizations. The harmful effects of this military operation are therefore being felt in many African countries, including Mali. There publication of new elements, in the press in particular, mentions the recommendation by the operations planning and management center of an intervention in the Sahel from 2009. This project developed under the name "Operation Shark" will finally be put in place on January 11, 2013 with the launch of the military operation Serval in Mali. Becoming Barkhane, this intervention has constituted the external operation for eight years the most important French war since the Algerian War. In a context of deteriorating security in Mali, the French government had justified the launch of Operation Serval as an emergency response to stop the advance of columns of pick-up trucks of jihadists sweeping into the capital Bamako. However, more and more actors, including the military, believe that the army and the French government would have triggered Serval on bundles of presumptions rather than concrete evidence of these jihadist columns. Therefore he asks her if she intends to publish the evidence of the elements mentioned to justify the Serval intervention in 2013. Furthermore, Operation Barkhane is today completely bogged down. For an exorbitant human and financial cost, and despite the damage inflicted on jihadist groups circulating in the region, the violence and damage caused by jihadists has not receded. Worse, the political and economic situation in Mali is deteriorating. Faced with this observation, he also asks if France intends to develop an agenda for the withdrawal of French troops from Mali. This withdrawal agenda could be an opportunity to build a new African and multilateral response in terms of security and development, more respectful of sovereignties and more concerned interests of local populations.

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