France’s armed forces minister Sébastien Lecornu slammed Disney’s latest “Black Panther” movie, accusing the filmmakers of a “false and misleading representation” of French soldiers.
The plot of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” involves Western countries, particularly France, attempting to steal the resources of a fictional high-tech African country. In one scene in the film, mercenaries acting on French instructions are brought before the United Nations after attacking a Wakandan outpost in Mali to plunder mineral resources.
Lecornu was responding to a journalist who pointed out that the film’s fictional mercenaries were dressed in actual French army uniforms from the Barkhane mission in Mali, where Parisian troops have fought Islamic extremists since 2013 at the request of Mali’s government. The battle was fought. clearance last august,
“I strongly condemn this misleading and deceptive representation of our armed forces,” Lecornu Tweeted, “I think of and pay tribute to the 58 French soldiers who died defending Mali at Malian’s request against Islamic terrorist groups.”
Disney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
last februaryFrance announced the end of a nine-year military campaign in Mali, where its troops Sent by former President François Hollande to stop the expansion of terrorist groups in the region.
Although French troops were initially sent at Mali’s request, support for the operation subsequently faded—in particular, according to Paris, due to the presence of mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group, fueling anti-French sentiment in the country. Got promoted.
Less than three weeks before France announced the end of its military campaign, the country’s ruling junta Paris ambassador expelled to Bamako, and Thousands of anti-French protesters gathered in the capitalwith burning cardboard effigies of French President Emmanuel Macron, while other protesters were seen waving Russian flags.