- Sergeant Yvonne Huynh and Brigadier Loïc Risser were killed on Saturday during a mission to Mali. Five days earlier, three other soldiers had also died in the Sahel.
- France lost 35 soldiers since the start of his military operation in 2007. It excludes today any idea of a withdrawal.
The aim of this operation is to ” avoid the development of terrorist groups so that they cannot plan attacks on French soil.