These four French who escorted a general of the UN force were arrested Monday at Bangui airport.
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The Central African Republic opened an investigation on Tuesday February 22 after the arrest the day before of four soldiers from the corps of the Foreign Legion of the French army operating under the banner of the UN, announced the public prosecutor in Bangui.
The four heavily armed men in fatigues, “of French, Italian, Romanian and Bulgarian nationality”according to the prosecutor, were escorting a French general of the UN peacekeeping force (Minusca) to the airport, had assured the French army and the UN.
But they were immediately accused on social networks of having wanted “murder” the Central African president, whose convoy was to pass through the same place at Bangui airport, which Paris and the UN immediately strongly denied, denouncing a “disinformation” and an “rough handling”.
“The Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Bangui High Court has decided to open a regular investigation to shed light on the facts”prosecutor Laurent Lengande said on state radio on Tuesday evening.