If a French soldier was guilty of raping a child when Sangaris mission to Central Africa, it must “withdraw immediately”, requires the French defense minister.
In an interview with Journal du Dimanche (JDD), Jean-Yves Le Drian provides that “if the facts are proven, I did not measure out my anger, because when the French soldier is on a mission, it is France.”
Wednesday, British newspaper The Guardian revealed that a UN framework was suspended by the international body for passing to France an internal report denouncing sexual abuse by soldiers of the security force, the French military, would committed against children in CAR.
According to the information Parisien, six children from 9 to 13 years have witnessed direct abuse without giving the names of their attackers that they ignore. Thirteen French soldiers are covered by the legal process that was launched on the basis of this survey, conducted in spring 2014.
“Disgust, a form of betrayal”
In this interview with JDD, Jean-Yves Le Drian said he “read the report 27 July 2014″ and having informed the president Francois Hollande and “immediately transmitted the report to the justice. ” An internal investigation called “command” “was conducted quickly. It ended in August, said the minister. It is naturally at the disposal of justice because it is for her to lead the criminal investigation. “
” If anyone messed flag, because that is what it This is, he must say so now, as this is to betray his comrades, the image of France and the mission of armies “says the minister, reading the report,” felt disgust, a form of betrayal of the mission entrusted to the Sangaris operation, and also an intense need for truth. “
” I think this is a complex investigation, “suggests Jean Yves Le Drian as supposed grounds that justice does not seem to have advanced on this issue. “Since the facts alleged, most soldiers left the operating theater, but this should not prevent the court from doing its work expeditiously,” he concludes
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