Three sentenced to life for 2004 air strike on French troops in Cote d Ivoire
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16/04/2021 - 15:29 A damaged Ivorian air force fighter in the wake of the French counterattack on 7 November 2004. AFP - STR 2 min A French court has sentenced a Belarusian mercenary and two Ivorian pilots to life in prison for their suspected involvement in an air strike on a French military camp in Ivory Coast in 2004, which killed ten people. None of the accused was in court. Their whereabouts are unknown. Advertising Read more
Yury Sushkin, believed to have been the pilot of the Ivorian airforce jet behind the strike, and two co-pilots, Patrice Ouei and Ange Gnanduillet, were tried for murder in absentia.
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