In a panic, acting President Dioncounda Traoré, a colonel from the south, called upon the French authorities to enforce a bilateral defense agreement, though he had contributed to the coup that drove the legally elected former president, Amadou Toumani Touré, into exile, causing the state to collapse and straining relations with France.
在恐慌中，来自南方的代理总统特劳雷上校求助于法国当局派兵履行双边防务协定，尽管他也参与了推翻合法当选的前总统图雷迫使其流亡的政变。这场政变导致了国家的崩溃，也恶化了与法国的关系。