"The procedure is underway", indicates the Ministry of the Armed Forces.

Six generals who signed the controversial forum published in Valeurs Actuelles on April 21, which denounced the “disintegration” of France, received a summons to appear before a military “higher council”, according to information from Le Monde confirmed by the Ministry of Armies.

The summons, signed by the Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, were sent on May 25 to these six generals of the second section ("2S"), retired but still likely to be recalled, writes the daily.

The ministry specifies that the hearings should take place within "a few months".

Possible radiation

The officers - out of the twenty signatory "2S" generals - are summoned - who have publicly assumed this signature in the media.

The other "2S" received a letter asking them if they confirmed having signed the platform.

Depending on their response, they will in turn be summoned or not.

In the summons, the Ministry of the Armed Forces considers that this text with “accusatory, outrageous and controversial tone” engages “the image of the armies”, according to Le Monde.

These high-ranking signatories incur delisting, warned at the end of April the chief of staff of the armed forces, General François Lecointre.

One of them, General Emmanuel de Richoufftz, was aide-de-camp to Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy in the early 1980s. Another, Christian Piquemal, former boss of the Foreign Legion, was already struck off in 2016 for having participated in a prohibited demonstration against migrants in Calais.

The last word for the president

At the end of the procedure before the Superior Council - composed of generals belonging to the same army corps (land, air, sea) - the last word in matters of sanction falls to the President of the Republic, head of the armed forces.

The 18 active soldiers also identified among the signatories - including four officers - for their part disassociated themselves from the rostrum with the exception of one (the 18th declared himself foreign to the text and invoked the usurpation of 'identity).

Sanctions will nevertheless be pronounced against them.

But they will be adapted in view of their change of position.

A second platform

The famous platform called on President Emmanuel Macron to defend patriotism.

The signatories denounced there the "disintegration" which strikes according to them the country and say themselves "ready to support the policies which will take into account the safeguard of the Nation".

A second forum, evoking a risk of "civil war" in France, has since been signed by active soldiers who have not been identified.

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