Police in Central African Republic have reported the arrest of seven people allegedly involved in the explosion of a parcel bomb near the Russian Embassy in Bangui.
«Seven people were detained, some of them were interrogated and released,» an employee of the Central African radio station Ndeke Luka has transferred to the Russian news agency TASS.
The Russian diplomatic legation in Central African Republic confirmed on Friday an explosion near its headquarters and as a result of which Dimitri Siti, director of the Casa Rusa cultural center, was seriously injured.
The spokesman of the Russian Embassy in the African nation, Vladislav Ilyin, indicated that Siti was in «serious» condition after suffering a «cerebral concussion» and «blood loss». Already on Monday he was transferred, out of danger, to Russian territory.
Wagner Group founder Yevgeni Prigozhin pointed directly to France as responsible for the attack. The company’s press service issued a statement detailing that Siti had already received in November a cargo «sent from Togo and containing a photograph of her son, who lives in France».
The African country has been plunged into a serious crisis following the elimination of the candidacy for the 2020 presidential election of former President François Bozizé, who returned to the country at the end of 2019 to run again for the presidency, a position he left in 2014 in the face of the uprising of the predominantly Muslim Séléka rebels.
The elimination of Bozizé’s candidacy led to the creation of the armed alliance Coalition Patriots for Change (CPC) -currently led by the former president-, which triggered an armed conflict in which the CAR Army was also supported by Russian mercenaries of the Wagner Group.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
