(AFP) A group of serving French soldiers has published an open letter warning President Emmanuel Macron that the survival of France is at stake after his “concessions” to Islamism, weeks after a similar message from elements in the military rocked the political elite.
The letter, posted on the website of the rightwing Valeurs Actuelles magazine late Sunday, echoes the one published by the same publication last month. It too warned that a civil conflict was brewing.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, a close ally of Macron, condemned the second letter as a “crude manoeuvre,” accusing its anonymous signatories of lacking “courage.”
The previous letter, signed by a handful of officers and some 20 semi-retired generals, sparked a furore. Prime Minister Jean Castex denounced it as unacceptable interference and France’s top general vowed that those behind it would be punished.
