France alleges its forces in Mali are the victim of smear campaign involving a Russian mercenary group.
Army spokesman Col Souleymane Dembele said the advanced state of decomposition of the bodies meant they had been dead for some days, and this, he claimed, would rule out the involvement of Malian forces.
It then says local media have linked the discovery to reports about a group of local herders detained by French soldiers near Gossi. "Their fate is still unknown," it claims.France says these people have now been released, which would rule them out being the victims found at Gossi. The Twitter account then dropped this profile image and started to use one belonging to Mali's military leader, Assimi Goita, around the time it posted claims about the mass grave in Gossi.
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