33 soldiers of the French army who were in Mali and Africa, and among these there are three senior officers in the French Intelligence Service, Echorouk sources said.
That does not fit the current official communication plan, and I doulbt you can hide this fact for very long, so I am sceptical about this rumour.
But if some truth is on it , I guess ' Le canard enchaine " ( French Weelkly newspaper generally very well informed ) of tomorrow evening will surely know and mention it .