A sequence that does not pass through the rendering of the image “mistakenly”. The French Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, condemned in a tweet this Sunday, February 12, the sequence of the blockbuster Black Panther 2, which was signed by Ryan Coogler. A series featuring French soldiers coming to plunder resources.

The said soldiers are kneeling before the Queen of Wakanda, in the same uniform as the French soldiers deployed in Mali before August 2022, as part of the Serval and Barkhani operations. The French minister should also answer for their actions before the UN.

“I strongly condemn this false and misleading representation of our armed forces”The minister responded on Twitter. “I think and honor the 58 French soldiers who died defending Mali at its request against Islamist terrorist groups.”

Entourage of Sebastien Lecornu, Quoted by AFPUnderline “Minister’s Anger After Watching Film”. If the Ministry accepts the principle of artistic freedom and does not demand censorship or cancellation Black Panther 2, “There can be no revisionism on France’s recent actions in Mali: we intervened at the country’s request to fight against armed terrorist groups, far from the story told in the film, namely the French army coming to plunder its natural resources.”

“Information War”

Some may be wondering about this rather delayed reaction to the film coming out in early November 2022. In fact, timing is not a matter of chance. The department, in its words, is fully “information warfare”.

Relations between France and some sub-Saharan African countries have soured. In particular, with Mali, where a double coup occurred in 2020 and 2021, the operations Serval and Barkhane, which were deployed in 2013 and 2014 respectively at the request of Bamako, to fight against jihadists linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, ended. .

This sharp deterioration of the image of France in these countries is reinforced Russian propaganda, whose mercenaries from the Wagner group work hard in these countries. For example, they use cartoons that are broadcast on social networks to encourage anti-French sentiments.

In one of them we can see French soldiers represented as zombies and snakes posing as “Macron’s demons”; And Wagner’s mercenaries are depicted as liberators.