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.
Côte d Ivoire – Bombardement de Bouaké: les trois accusés condamnés à la perpétuité
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Côte d Ivoire: Bombardement de Bouaké: les trois accusés condamnés à la perpétuité
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Bombardement de Bouaké : des condamnés mais pas de vérité
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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 4 min 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. Advertising Read more
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.