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Madagascar Expels French Staff Over Alleged Grid Sabotage Plot

4/30/2026

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Madagascar expelled a French embassy employee as persona non grata after accusing a French serviceman of plotting power-grid sabotage.
Prosecutors said the scheme sought nationwide blackouts and mutiny and placed Colonel Patrick Rakotomamonjy and two others under judicial supervision as non-masterminds.
France’s foreign ministry summoned Madagascar’s chargé d’affaires in Paris to protest the expulsion, calling accusations against detained former serviceman Guy Baret unfounded.

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Madagascar expelled a French embassy employee as persona non grata after accusing a French serviceman of plotting power-grid sabotage.
Prosecutors said the scheme sought nationwide blackouts and mutiny and placed Colonel Patrick Rakotomamonjy and two others under judicial supervision as non-masterminds.
France’s foreign ministry summoned Madagascar’s chargé d’affaires in Paris to protest the expulsion, calling accusations against detained former serviceman Guy Baret unfounded.