French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has been summoned by a court in Bamako as part of an investigation into an alleged “attack on public property and other offences” dating back to 2015, concerning the manufacture of Malian biometric passports. This comes at a time of tense relations between France and Mali.
The Bamako court has summoned Le Drian to present himself on 20 June at 8am “for a matter concerning him”.
Le Drian and his son Thomas are suspected of “attacking public property and other offences at the expense of the Malian state”.
The summons was prompted by a complaint from Maliko – a civil society association close to the military junta – regarding a biometric passport concession dating from 2015.
