Ivory Coast: One dead and twenty arrests after anti-Nigerian violence (Prosecutor)

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Connectionivoirienne May 20, 2021 7:32 p.m.

Ivory Coast: One dead and twenty arrests after anti-Nigerian violence (Prosecutor)

"We left with fear in our stomachs compared to what happened yesterday but for the moment everything is fine," replied a Hausa trader in the town of Adjamé (Center) where stores and Garbadromes (points of sale attiéké) remained closed “under threats” from young Ivorians in the 220 Lgts Marie Thérèse district.

On Wednesday, ten people were injured, six vehicles charred and a dozen shops looted in violence in Abidjan and Daloa "targeting the Nigerien community", after a video of acts of violence against suspected Ivorians abroad published on social networks, according to a report by Minister of Security Vagondo Diomandé.

We did not know what can happen afterwards, but at this time, there is nothing, ”said Abou, visibly not worried by the events which took place the day before in the Abidjan communes of Angré, Abobo, Yopougon, Adjamé, Anyama.

Businesses that remained closed in the aftermath of the anti-Nigerian violence Donald NGORAN In Abidjan, in the Ivorian economic capital, the day after the anti-Nigerian violence following the publication of a video featuring acts of violence against individuals, businesses remained closed in towns including Marcory, Koumassi, Adjamé and Yopougon, ALERTE INFO noted.

"The prosecutor wishes to indicate that more than twenty people were arrested following these events and that investigations are underway to find the perpetrators of these barbaric acts", we can read in the note of the prosecutor.

Donald NGORAN In Ivory Coast following the violence against Nigeriens which occurred Wednesday in Abidjan and Daloa having left "one death and several seriously injured, twenty people were arrested and investigations were opened to find the perpetrators", announced the public prosecutor Richard Adou in a note Thursday.

According to the prosecutor who called "everyone for calm, restraint and responsibility", all those who in any way, contributed to the commission of these acts, "will suffer the rigors of the criminal law "..

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