Mala put down his pen and looked up at Demulan, "Camille, you know as well as I do that the rumors about those shameless officers only omit their misdeeds, and hardly ever wrongfully accuse anyone.
"Besides, what I've written are only 'maybe' and 'signs indicate,' and the officers won't be convicted on this basis. The gendarmes will definitely conduct a detailed investigation. Wouldn't it be great if they actually found hard evidence?"
He continued to write the denunciation letter, "What I regret the most is that the Justice Investigation Department doesn't have the capacity to go after those bastards in the army."
Indeed, once Joseph had learned that the gendarmerie would be responsible for reviewing the French Guard, he immediately began the next step of his response.
He first had Fouché hand over some dirt on French Guard officers to Mala, a large part of which were heard from an officer named Tiru during the previous investigation into the shelling of a farmhouse.