Eighteen active soldiers who signed the controversial forum published in
Valeurs Actuelles
and criticizing the
"disintegration of their homeland" in the
face of
"Islamism"
and the "
risk of civil war
" will go
"each before a higher military council"
announced François Lecointre, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, in an interview published by
Le Parisien
,
this Wednesday, April 28.
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"
I want their automatic retirement to be decided,
" the general said on a daily basis.
It is an exceptional procedure, which we are launching immediately at the request of the Minister of the Armed Forces. These general officers will each pass before a higher military council. At the end of this procedure, it is the President of the Republic who signs a decree of radiation.
"
The column, published by
Valeurs Actuelles
on April 21 and signed by "
about twenty generals, a hundred high-ranking officers and more than a thousand other soldiers
", calls on President Emmanuel Macron to defend patriotism. These soldiers denounce the “
disintegration
” which strikes according to them the fatherland and say they are “
ready to support policies which will take into consideration the safeguard of the nation
”.
