Mali President Assimi Goïta on Thursday pardoned a French national who had been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Last year, Mali's military-led government accused Yann Vézilier, an official from the French embassy, of being involved in a plot to destabilise the West African country.
Mali's junta chief granted a presidential pardon Thursday to a French intelligence agent working at the country's embassy, who was accused of being a spy and ordered to serve 20 years in jail.
