Presidential pardon for French alleged spy Yann Vezilier accused of plotting Mali coup

Malian President Assimi Goïta has granted a pardon to Yann Vezilier, a Frenchman sentenced to 20 years in prison for trying to destabilize his government. Accusations that Vezilier was working as a French spy in Mali were deemed unfounded by France's foreign ministry. The pardon does not question the facts established by an adversarial judgment rendered during a trial.