France wants to do everything to prevent the alliance with Wagner

Declared "

" with the French partnership, the alliance project between the Malian government and the Russian company Wagner, close to the Kremlin, has been mobilizing all the energies of French diplomacy for several weeks.

Paris first tries to put pressure on the Russian authorities.

Christophe Bigot, Mr. Africa of the Quai d'Orsay, visited Moscow last month.

Emmanuel Bonne, the President's diplomatic adviser, was there this week.

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Contacts have also been established with the intelligence services, in particular the military (the GRU).

France asks the Russians to give up or failing that, at least to slow down their project of alliance with the Malian transitional government, resulting from a double putsch.

For the moment without any real success.

In Moscow, the official channels claim to have no influence on Wagner.

As for the unofficial channels, they prepare the deployment of mercenaries to fill the void left by the reduction of the French military force.

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