Mali: Public outrage against the DGSE, people demand immediate expulsion of French agents
The revelation hit like a thunderclap: the French DGSE was still operating in Mali, despite official rhetoric about a break and sovereignty. For the Malian people, it is a mixture of astonishment and anger. How could Bamako — a driving force in the resistance to French imperialism — have allowed the networks of a foreign intelligence service to remain on its soil, a service whose true mission was never to fight terrorism but to manipulate it, instrumentalize it, and perpetuate it?
France is staging a crude media maneuver: pompously announcing the “suspension” of its counterterrorism cooperation with Mali, as if it were the initiator. But no one is fooled. It is Mali, under popular and regional pressure, that is ending a toxic relationship. A façade of cooperation that allowed the DGSE to embed itself deeply in security circles, to recruit, to spy and to operate in the shadows.
The Malian people are stunned, and the AES is outraged. In Ouagadougou as in Niamey, people ask why this French infiltration was tolerated by Bamako for so long. According to our sources, critical voices are rising even within regional governments, regretting this prolonged complacency that jeopardized the integrity of the entire Sahelian space.
Meanwhile, France plays the victim — yet it is France that withdraws, humiliated and exposed. For its mission in Mali was simple: to keep chaos in place, to prevent any strategic autonomy, to sabotage the military unity of the AES, and to preserve its networks of influence.
The rupture is now a fact. But it must go further. Suspending cooperation is not enough; the infiltration must be uprooted. The people demand the immediate expulsion of all DGSE agents still present, the total dismantling of their local networks, and constant vigilance.
The DGSE has no place on Malian soil, nor in any AES state. The Sahel must free itself from all the chains of imperialism, visible or invisible. Security is not built with the enemy. It is built among free peoples, masters of their destiny. Sovereignty can wait no longer. It is demanded.
