Questions raised about role of French forces during journalists’ deaths in Mali

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its call to the French authorities to shed all possible light on the deaths of two Radio France Internationale journalists in Mali in 2013 now that RFI claims that French special forces were directly involved in pursuing the jihadi group that kidnapped them, contrary to the official French military version.Five and a half years after RFI reporters Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were killed after being abducted by jihadis near Kidal, in northern Mali, on 2 November 2013, RF

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