Central African Republic: police operation punch in a hotel in Bangui
View of Bangui.
RFI/Hyppolyte Donossio
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In the Central African Republic, ten people, including eight foreigners, arrested at dawn at the hotel-restaurant Le Relais des Chasses in Bangui were released during the day.
The last ones this Thursday evening.
For the moment, the reason for their arrest remains unclear.
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It was around 5 a.m. when the police officers of the OCRB, the central office for the repression of banditry, burst into the Relais des Chasses, a hotel-restaurant in the city center, an institution of the Central African capital for many years. .
In total: 10 people, employees and customers, are arrested and taken away.
The police will return at the end of the morning to carry out new searches.
Two Central Africans and a Ghanaian were released in the morning.
Then two French people, including a FIFA employee, in the afternoon.
Five other Europeans - two French, an Italian, a Belgian and a Spaniard.
- are still questioned for several hours in the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance at the port of Bangui, until their release at the beginning of the evening.
They are summoned this Friday morning March 10 to the DST for new hearings.
The reason for these searches and arrests remains unknown for the moment, but according to local sources, the police were looking for highly flammable products that they would not have found at the Relais des Chasses.
Searches still in progress apparently.
The motives are unknown https://t.co/Q19x8XCb18
— Francois Mazet (@fmazet) March 9, 2023
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