Photos showing French soldiers in the middle of gold bars, plundering the country's resources.
Or some, shocking, on which jihadists brandish the head of a soldier as an alleged military success to terrorize public opinion.
Sometimes, these are also insidious messages, such as the one claiming that the French army is testing anti-Covid vaccines on African populations ...
All these images and rumors are false, but they have circulated on Sahelian social networks.
They aim to discredit the French military intervention Barkhane, to weaken public support for operations or are used for propaganda and recruitment purposes.
They can be the work of jihadist groups or of foreign powers, such as Russia, determined to lead a balance of power in the "
field of perceptions
".
It is a new theater of confrontation on which the French army must progress and act, within the framework of the “
hybrid wars
” described.
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