What took this French spy to Cameroon?

Bernard Bajolet, the chief of the French Secret Service was in Cameroon on Thursday, November 12, 2015 for reasons not yet known to the Cameroonian people. Bernard Bajolet was received in audience by President Paul Biya at the Unity Palace and nothing has so far filtered from this meeting between the two personalities, as the boss of the French secret services made no statement to the press. 

The presence of Bernard Bajolet in Yaounde some few hours before the happenings in Paris has created some “excitement” among the political elites, the Cameroon army and other policing establishments in the country. We gathered from our military informant that Bajolet met Biya to discuss the business of intelligence sharing in the war against Boko Haram. Our senior political correspondent in Yaounde who contributed to this report observed that with the arrival of the US contingent stationed in Garoua and made up of 300 soldiers, France is aware that the intelligence system has changed and Paris wants to be at the head of everything in Cameroon from the security point of view.

Recently, senior French leaders have visited Cameroon including Laurent Fabius (Foreign Minister) Bernard Cazeneuve (Interior Minister) and Francois Hollande (President). Bernard Bajolet became head of the French Secret Service, DGSE on the 10th of April 2013. He has served as ambassador of France in Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Jordan. From 1986-1990 he served as deputy ambassador in the French embassy in Syria. Bernard Bajolet was en route to Paris when the Friday terrorists’ attacks were staged. In trying to protect everything, you end up protecting nothing