France condemns the showing of its soldiers in a Marvel movie

France condemned the presentation from the army this Sunday as perpetrators looting resources, in a blockbuster movie Marvel where they appear in a uniform very similar to the uniform worn by those deployed in Mali.

French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu “strongly condemned this false and misleading representation of our Armed Forces”, referring to “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” on his Twitter account.

This US production from last year, written and directed by Ryan Coogler, It is a sequel to the first episode of ‘Black Panther’.where the action takes place in the fictional kingdom of Wakanda.

In one of the scenes that caused the reaction of the French minister, you can see: some soldiers kneel before the queen of Wakandaramonda, In uniforms like those of the French soldiers in Maliand one who left that country last year in open friction with Paris at the request of the new Bamako regime.

In his tweet, Lecornu wanted to remember: “58 French soldiers who were martyred while defending Mali against Islamist terrorist groups who wanted this”.

One way to insist that the French military intervention in Mali, which lasted nine years until August 2022, was carried out at the request of the authorities of that former colony in 2013, because they feared it would be overthrown by the jihadist forces that later controlled a large part of Mali. The region is in the northeast of the country.

The departure of French forces from Mali, two consecutive blows which led to the rise to power of an openly anti-french military regime and which, according to Paris, was supported by Wagner mercenary militias directly linked to the Kremlin.