Mali coup plot: Presidential pardon for French alleged spy Yann Vezilier
- Mali is a former colony of France, and has been gripped by a security crisis fuelled by an Islamist insurgency since 2012.
- It was one of the reasons given for Goïta leading a coup in 2021 but attacks by jihadist groups have continued and even increased.
- At the time of the arrests last year, Mali's Security Minister Gen Daoud Aly Mohammedine said "fringe elements of the Malian armed security forces" had been detained for seeking to "destabilise the institutions of the republic".
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- Mali is a former colony of France, and has been gripped by a security crisis fuelled by an Islamist insurgency since 2012.
- It was one of the reasons given for Goïta leading a coup in 2021 but attacks by jihadist groups have continued and even increased.
- At the time of the arrests last year, Mali's Security Minister Gen Daoud Aly Mohammedine said "fringe elements of the Malian armed security forces" had been detained for seeking to "destabilise the institutions of the republic".
Sources: BBC News