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French army chief says UN report into air strike was biased

BBC News Published image captionGen Francois Lecointre, left, says a UN report had errors and bias The head of the French armed forces has criticised a UN report which blamed his troops for killing 19 civilians in an air strike on a wedding in Mali. Gen François Lecointre is quoted in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro as saying the report had errors and bias and was designed to turn the local population against France. France has 5,100 troops across the Sahel region. They are fighting militants tied to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group. Gen Lecointre also said in the interview with Le Figaro that he believed Europe would still be fighting Islamist extremism in the Sahel in 10 years time, and European forces would be more deeply involved than they are now.

French army chief says UN report into air strike was biased

French army chief accuses UN of bias over Mali