Head of French Military Intelligence General Eric Vioso was resigned after seven months of stay at the post. This was reported on Wednesday newspaper L’Opinion.
According to the observer Jean-Dominica, Merche, 55-year-old General Vioso was fired “For the shortcomings in the work of intelligence during the period of the Ukrainian crisis,” TASS reports.
Military intelligence directly obeys the main headquarters of France.
Figaro writes that the scandal around General Vioso emerged on the eve of March, when the head of the General Staff General, Tierry, the Curebell acknowledged that French intelligence, unlike colleagues from the United States and Britain, considered an unlikely Russian invasion to Ukraine. “The Americans convinced that the Russians are going to attack, and they were right. Our services rather believed that the conquest of Ukraine would cost expensive for the Russian Federation and that they have other options to” bring down the “President Zelensky”, “said the head of the president.