General Lecointre: "The perils are approaching France"

On July 14, he had his fourth and last review of the troops on the Champs-Élysées alongside President Macron.

Appointed Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces (Cema) in 2017, immediately after the resounding departure of his predecessor Pierre de Villiers, General François Lecointre decided to retire although the Head of State had asked him to stay .

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has the imperative concern of protecting institutions.

And for him, this means a clear disconnection between the presidential mandate and the mission devolved to Cema.

If the two terms had coincided, General Lecointre feared that it would have been considered that he had served Emmanuel Macron when he intended to serve the President of the Republic.

A few days before his departure, he received

in his private rooms at the School

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