The military arrests of Mali, the generals, the alleged French agent in the reversal intrigue | Soldiers

The Malian minister says that the situation under control after the plot has foiled to “destabilize the institutions of the Republic”.

The authorities of Mali arrested a group of soldiers and civilians, including two generals of the Malian army and an alleged French secret agent, accused of having tried to destabilize the country.

The Minister of Security of Mali, General Daoud Aly Mohammedine, announced the arrests Thursday evening according to the days of rumors according to which Military officials have been arrested.

The minister said: “The situation is completely under control.”

“The transitional government informs the national public of the arrest of a small group of marginal elements of the Malian armed forces and security for criminal offenses aimed at destabilizing the institutions of the Republic,” said Mohammedine on National News.

“The plot was thwarted the arrests of the people involved,” he said, adding that the plot started on August 1.

“These soldiers and civilians” had obtained “help from foreign states,” said Mali’s army in a statement, adding that a French national – identified as Yann Christian Bernard Vezilier – was held suspected of working “in the name of the French intelligence service”.

The Minister of Security said that the Frenchman acted “on behalf of the French intelligence service, which mobilized political leaders, civil society actors and military staff” in Mali.

Images shared on the social networks of the so -called French spy suspect presented a white man in the fifties carrying a white shirt and appearing somewhat alarmed.

National television also broadcast photos of 11 people who, according to them, were members of the group who planned the coup.

The Minister of Security also identified two Malian generals who, according to him, were part of the plot.

One of the suspects, General Abass Dembele, is a former governor of the country’s central region of the country, who was suddenly dismissed in May when he demanded an investigation into the allegations that the Malian army killed civilians in the village of Diafarabe. The second general, Nema Sagara, was previously praised for his role in the fight against rebel groups in 2012.

Security sources told AFP news agency that at least 55 soldiers had been arrested, and the authorities said they were working to identify “possible accomplices”.

Occupable Mali has been seized by a security crisis Since 2012, supplied in particular by the violence of armed groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Isil group (ISIS), as well as to local criminal gangs.

The country’s military leaders, led by President Assimi Goita, have put themselves in recent years to Western partners, in particular the former colonial power of France, and have aligned politically and militarily with Russia in the name of national sovereignty.

In June, Goita obtained an additional five years in power, despite the previous promises of the military of a return to the civil regime by March 2024.