N’DJAMENA, May 14 (Reuters) – Chadian police cracked down on a protest on Saturday that brought several hundred people to the streets of the capital N’Djamena and other towns to express their hostility towards France.
Organized by the Wakit Tamma organization, these rallies aimed to denounce France’s support for the military transition council which has held the reins of power since the death of President Idriss Dby.
“We are demonstrating against France for its support for the transitional military council,” Mahmoud Moussa, a high school teacher in the Chadian capital, told Reuters.
A spokesman for the provisional government could not be reached, nor the French embassy.
Some demonstrators ransacked several service stations belonging to the French TotalEnergies. Some burned French flags while a Russian flag was raised in the center of N’Djamena. (Report Madjiasra Nako, written by Bate Felix, French version Nicolas Delame, told by Benjamin Mallet)