Malian soldiers apparently fired accidentally a Bundeswehr convoy of Minusma Mission. In the exchange of fire, a Malian Army was severely injured. The Bundeswehr investigated the process.
In Mali have been fired on soldiers of the German deployment contingent Minusma. The convoy was moved out to salvage a wrecked Belgian Transporter, as he was apparently attacked in error by Malian forces. The German armed forces announced in a Letter to the defence Committee of the Bundestag, which is the ARD-capital Studio.
The German armed forces soldiers returned fire and injured a Malian soldier. The life was dangerous and brought Wounded in a UN camp. German or Belgian troops, members were not injured. The German army is now investigating how it could come to the shooting. The Malian army is one of the cooperation partners of the German Bundeswehr in the Mission.
the Mission of German and Mali are cooperating shear forces closely.
the most Dangerous military use
in 2013, the Bundeswehr is involved in Mali in the international application to the Monitoring of a peace agreement. To the North of the country had fallen to a military coup temporarily in the hands of Islamist rebel groups. They could only be made after an Intervention of the French armed forces pushed back. Include “Minusma” currently, around 13,000 soldiers from all over the world. Up to 1100 German soldiers can be dispatched there.
The Mission of the “Minusma” is currently the most dangerous deployment of the Bundeswehr. Extremists, UN peacekeepers, and Mali to attack again and again, sche armed forces. Islamist groups terrorizing Northern Mali. But when it comes to attacks in the centre and South, around November 2015, when terrorists attacked the Radisson Hotel, Bamako, and around 20 people killed.
More than 150 blue helmet soldiers were already in the use of killed, including two helicopter pilots of the Bundeswehr. Nevertheless, there were in the Bundestag in 2018, a large majority for the extension of the mandate. 496 voted member of Parliament for the extension of, 156. There were four abstentions. In addition to the Grand coalition, also the FDP and the greens voted in favour.
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