The French Defense Minister, Jean Yves Le Drian, says that "hundreds" of militants have been killed over the last month.
France's Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said he appeared to have fought alongside Islamist militants.
And French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said he had no proof of either man's death.
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France's military aim in Mali is its "total reconquest", French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has said.
And on Sunday French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the hostage-taking as an "act of war".
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Islamist militants were swept from Gao last month, but Jean-Yves Le Drian said clashes were continuing in the area.
Western leaders condemned the attack with French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian describing it as an "act of war".
The government also regained control of the main bridge leading into the city, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
"The aim was to kill the soldier because he was a soldier, " Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told CNN affiliate BFMTV.
Jean-Yves Delanne, who is known by the nickname Captain Haddock for his salty sea-dog appearance, said he thought justice had been done.
He was killed in some of the heaviest fighting that France has carried out in Mali, defence minister Jean-Yves le Drian said.
"The aim was to kill the soldier because he was a soldier, " Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the CNN affiliate on Saturday.
There are no more French hostages at the plant as far as French authorities can tell, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Saturday.
His lawyer, Jean-Yves Lienard, said his client had during questioning stressed his "total lack of involvement" in the matter, AFP news agency reported.
In a statement earlier, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian confirmed that 3, 700 French troops were engaged in Operation Serval, 2, 500 of them on Malian soil.
The Esa ministerial council outcome was warmly welcomed by Jean-Yves Le Gall, the man who heads up Arianespace, the commercial operator of Europe's big rocket.
France has sent several hundred troops to join the fight and plans more raids on Monday, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told Radio Europe 1.
"The French troops are being vivacious at Kidal airport, which was taken a little more than a day ago, " said Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French defense minister.
The energetic Jean-Yves Empereur, who runs the French-funded Centre d'Etudes Alexandrines on a shoestring, has managed to juggle several salvage excavations in the city with underwater work offshore.
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Speaking from Bamako, Mali, on Europe 1 radio, Jean-Yves Le Drian said he'd toured the "sanctuary of al Qaeda in Mali" and saw the radical Islamists' arsenal sitting in caves.
The French pilot died while taking part Friday afternoon in an aerial operation targeting a terrorist group moving on the town of Mopti, near Konna, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the French campaign in Mali, which it launched in January after Islamist militants took over much of the country's north, succeeded in preventing terrorists from controlling that area.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday that French troops and warplanes joined the battle last week on the side of Malian government forces, and prevented the Islamists from capturing the city of Mopti.
But French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Monday there was no confirmation that either Belmoktar or another senior figure in AQIM, Abou Zeid, had been killed during the French campaign against Islamist hideouts in northern Mali.
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said four Rafale fighter jets, flying from their base in France, had attacked and destroyed rebel training camps and logistics depots in Gao, which acted as back-up bases for terrorist groups.
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"This advance by the Malian army toward the cities held by their enemies constitutes a certain military success for the Bamako government and for French forces, who have intervened in support of these operations, " French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
But, speaking on France-2 television, Jean-Yves Le Drian said: "These are groups who adhere to the same fundamentalism and who have the same methods, whether it is in Mali, in Somalia or in Nigeria, who want to create a lawless zone" stretching from the Atlantic across the southern edge of the Sahara to Sudan.
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