Families of victims seek justice over French air strike in Mali

France denies UN report that 19 unarmed civilians were killed in a January air strike on a remote Malian village.

Families of people killed in a French air strike on a wedding in a remote Malian village have called for the prosecution of the military personnel involved in an operation the United Nations has concluded could amount to a war crime. Nineteen attendees of a wedding party in the village of Bounti were killed when French warplanes struck on January 3, according to a bombshell UN report on Tuesday, its first ever investigation into French military operations. Three suspected militia fighters were also killed. The findings contradict French claims, reiterated this week, that 30 militia fighters had been killed in the attack which took place in Mali’s restive central region.