France helps Haftar in its attempt to storm Tripoli, and does so with its own specialists deployed on Libyan soil. This is what emerges from the militias in the field. According to reports from the Libya Observer, a militiaman who fights for General Haftar confessed that he had boarded a flight departing from Benina, the Benghazi airport and headed for Jufra. On the flight there were 14 Libyans, 30 Egyptians and six French military advisers.
Today, the Italian news agency Nova reveals a sad and exclusive truth. Thirteen French citizens aboard six vehicles were stopped at the Ras Jedir crossing, on the border with Libya, while they were headed to Ben Guerdane, in the Tunisian governorate of Medenine. This was reported by a Tunisian security source to "Agenzia Nova". The French citizens refused to hand over the documents, according to the Tunisian legal procedures, the source clarified. For this reason, the French 13 have remained since yesterday, 14 April, at the border crossing point between Tunisia and Libya. The news partially confirms what was previously announced by the Arab information site "Arabi 21", based in the United Kingdom, but considered close to Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood. According to "Arabi 21", the Tunisian customs of Ras Jedir, on the border with Libya, had recently blocked a vehicle with a diplomatic plate carrying 10 French citizens, preventing them from entering Libyan territory. According to the Arab information site "Arabi 21" the Tunisian authorities would have refused to pass the French citizens because they would have been armed and would not have wanted to deliver their weapons to the border crossing point. According to the site it would be military advisers of the forces of the Libyan general Khalifa Haftar. The same site claims that another group of French advisers has been identified in Libya in the Gharyan area, 75 kilometers south of Tripoli. These counselors would be helping Haftar's forces with the help of drones.