This manager of an animal park was taken away by “unidentified individuals”, says the Chadian government.
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A Franco-Australian national was kidnapped in Chad on Friday, October 28, the government of this Central African country announced in a press release on Saturday. In the evening, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that it had “learned of the kidnapping of one of our compatriots in Chad” and be “in connection with his family, as with the Chadian authorities, in order to obtain his rapid release”.
He was taken away “by as yet unidentified individuals”, in the province of Wadi Fara, in eastern Chad, near the border with Sudan, explain the Chadian authorities, without giving further details on the circumstances of the kidnapping. They claim to have “mobilized all security and human means to get hold of the kidnappers and find” that man.
The second known French hostage in the world
The Chadian government presents this Franco-Australian as an employee of Oryx Park, an animal park of nearly 78,000 km2, managed by the organization Sahara Conservation Fund.
Eastern Chad, bordering the Sudanese region of Darfur, is an area plagued by organized crime and all kinds of trafficking. Incursions by criminal groups into Chad and Sudan are recurrent and the region is regularly the scene of deadly violence, particularly between communities, on both sides of the border.
The only French hostage known so far in the world was journalist Olivier Dubois, kidnapped in northern Mali more than 18 months ago.