The expert reacted to France's attempts to accuse Russia of atrocities in Mali

French contingent in Mali. File photoMOSCOW, May 12.France spread fake news to shift the blame for the mass graves in Mali to Russia, a rigorous investigation is now underway that will prove that this is not true, said Maxim Shugalei, head of the National Values ​​Defense Fund (FZNTS). entered the military base of the French forces of the operation «Barkhana» in Gossy and discovered a mass grave. In turn, the French authorities deny involvement in the burials and call it a «staging of the Russians.» True, it is already known, obviously, because it was a fake that was launched by the French media.Even some media shows that Russian soldiers are allegedly burying mass graves in which local residents died, but then by dates, by numbers, it is clear that the local the police get these dead bodies out of the pits. And here it makes no sense to understand where the fakes are, where not the fakes, it makes no sense — everything is clear. Now there is … a thorough investigation, let's wait for the results that everyone knows, but there will be confirmation of this, «Shugaley said RIA Novosti.According to him, now it is important to convey the results of the investigation to the world community. «The question is not whether they will or not, the question is whether we will be able to convey the results to the world community you of this study because people want to hear what they want to hear and print what they want to print,» he added. >France considers Mali's decision to break the defense agreement unreasonable. At the same time, the sociologist believes that it will no longer be possible to convey the truth to Western society, and we must work for our citizens, who also have doubts. «Of course, we understand that if we count on the support of the collective West, then we will not get it. And we will not be able to convey our position to the public of the West, everything is closed there. We need to convey it to our people so that people are sure that we are right. There are such doubters, and we must work for this audience,» he stressed. Shugaley. In addition, he noted that the investigation would take about two months. «The local authorities there are doing whatever they want, they are interested in proving the truth. In fact, there are no problems, to get the bodies and identify how many and when these people were killed, to understand that our people were not there at that time — this is absolutely certain, it is impossible according to the time frame, to understand that there were French forces in this territory, and further prove that it is a fake. This is a small problem,» Shugalei explained.