Paris court issues life sentences over 2004 bombing that sparked French-Ivorian clash

Paris court issues life sentences over 2004 bombing that sparked French-Ivorian clash
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15/04/2021 - 16:19
The site of the November 6, 2004 bombing in Bouaké, Ivory Coast, in which nine French soldiers were killed. © Philippe Desmazes, AFP
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A court in Paris on Thursday handed down life sentences to two Ivorian officers and a Belarussian mercenary who were tried in absentia for the deadly 2004 bombing of French peacekeepers in Ivory Coast that triggered days of fierce clashes.
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Ivorians Patrice Ouei and Ange Gnanduillet and Belarus national Yury Sushkin were found guilty of carrying out the raid near the Ivorian city of Bouaké on November 6, 2004, in which nine French soldiers and a US aid worker were killed.

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