The Ministry of the Armies regretted that the extreme right candidate does not respect his “moral commitment”, which held him at the discretion, during his communication operation in Côte d’Ivoire.
At the moment when photos of Eric Zemmour waiting for his suitcase at the airport of Abidjan, in Côte d’Ivoire, circulated on social networks in France, Thursday, December 23 in the morning, the entourage of the candidate of Far right rubbed his hands and announced a release ready to be published. The interested party was waiting at the Port-Bouët logistics camp, a town in Abidjan, where the French forces were stationed in Côte d’Ivoire, to perfect the effect of surprise in the full Christmas and claim against the cons. -Pied from the head of state. His team then suggested to the press, not invited to the trip, which he would go to the soldiers – he returned to Paris on Thursday night.
This twenty-four hour trip was mounted in the wake of the visit to the Mali of Emmanuel Macron, planned on Monday, December 20, with the forces of operation “Barkhane”. General Bertrand de la Chesnais, Eric Zemmour’s campaign manager, then imagined for his candidate a trip to Gao, closer to the soldiers in operation in Mali. “He had a whole catalog of four or five requests”, slips a source to the Ministry of the Armies, where one emit an “agreement under conditions” for the displacement in Ivory Coast, as for any candidate who would do the Official request. The Eric Zemmour team undertakes to observe a total discretion and lack of media coverage to preserve the neutrality of the armies.
Thursday, however, the nationalist candidate publishes a long communiqué issuing a “message to the armed forces in operation” and depicts in the chief potential of the armed forces “with the soldiers engaged in Africa and in Operation Barkhane” – the military From Abidjan camp provide support for the operation in the Sahel. He adds a series of tweets broadcasting ten photos staging him on the military base, where we see him posing a finger on a weapon and tightening the hand of a soldier. “He did not respected the clear rules he had accepted, nor the moral commitment, nor the republican property,” we react in the entourage of Florence Parly, Minister of the Armies. The spokesman of the Ministry, Hervé Grandjean, reacted publicly Thursday night: “This moral commitment that we ask for presidential candidates has not been held today by a candidate. We regret it.”
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Anxious to minimize the trip, the Ministry of the Armies had mentioned Thursday an “express passage” of Eric Zemmour on the operational basis. During a four-hour visit, the far-right candidate took a meal with the military of the e Marine Infantry Battalion and received a gift “on behalf of The staff of the armies “. He assured the soldiers that he would give a “special attention” to the means, while Emmanuel Macron had faced the shattered departure of the chief of staff of the armed forces Pierre de Villiers, in July 2017, after strong tensions around of the defense budget. Eric Zemmour also writes, in his communiqué, that the commitment of French troops on external theaters “protects our land from the aggression from wherever they come” and “our interests, alongside our partners that we will not give up “, however, declaring with his positions against the French operation in Sahel.
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