Trials must participate in the "manifestation of the truth".
The one who has been standing for two weeks before a special assize court in Paris tends rather, for the moment, to
"add vagueness to the smoke",
in the words of the prosecutor.
The court is trying, in their absence, a Belarusian pilot and two Ivorian officers accused of having carried out, on November 6, 2004, a bombardment against a French military camp in Bouaké, in the north of Côte d'Ivoire.
Nine soldiers, then under UN mandate, were killed in this city, the rebel capital, without anyone ever understanding why.
Read also: The strange trial of the bombing of Bouaké
The debates have not yet cleared up this thick geopolitical mystery, but nevertheless have one great merit: placing the French decision-makers of the time in front of their immense contradictions and their little lies.
Diplomats, soldiers and ministers have taken the helm, shifting responsibilities and mistakes.
Mansuetude
Less than the reasons for this raid led by loyalists
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