An agreement led to the release of these soldiers, accused of attempted coup and imprisoned for 6 months.
The soap opera had been running for more than six months. The approximately 50 Ivorian soldiers, arrested in July in Bamako, were pardoned this Friday with “full remission of sentencesby the leader of the Malian junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta. The decree was delayed, despite the mediations, the dialogues and the pressures. “It’s a rather bizarre story.sums up an adviser to the Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara. The Ivorian troops had been deployed in Mali within the United Nations Mission (Minusma). But this projection was made in a vague legal framework, leading the local authorities to apprehend the soldiers before accusing them of being “mercenariesand to have attempted an attempt at destabilization. If all observers very quickly agreed to recognize a certain administrative levity, even the Minusma, which since then has been strangely silent, no one believed for a moment in a pseudo-coup d’etat hatched by these men.
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