Military tribune: "It is the political instrumentalisation which forced the government to intervene"

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The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, General François Lecointre announced sanctions against the signatories of the platform published in Valeurs Actuelles © RFI

By: Florent Guignard

8 mins

In an interview with the daily

Le Parisien

yesterday, General François Lecointre, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces said that sanctions would be taken against generals who signed the controversial platform.

Published in the weekly

Valeurs contemporaine

on April 21, they denounced in particular the disintegration of France.

Twenty-four retired generals risk being struck off by going before the Supreme Military Council and the 18 in service will face disciplinary sanctions.

The analysis of General Jérôme Pellistrandi, editor-in-chief of the

National Defense

review

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