A joint investigation by the Chadian and French armies is underway to try to determine the circumstances of the tragedy that unfolded on Tuesday in Faya-Largeau. A French military medic shot and killed a Chadian soldier he was treating and who killed him. assaulted with a scalpel in a base of the French forces in the north of Chadannounced a local governor.
“A Chadian soldier, who was not in a normal state, went for a bandage in the military base of thearmy Frenchwoman, took a scalpel and injured a French military nurse”, explained General Ali Maïde Kebir, governor of the Borkou region of which Faya-Largeau is the capital. “The nurse used his firearm and killed him,” he continued.
The local population demonstrates before dispersing
“After learning of the death of the Chadian soldier, the population of Faya demonstrated all day in front of the entrance to the base, tried to enter but without success and the crowd dispersed at nightfall” , added the governor, who speaks of the attack on the nurse as an “isolated act” and an “incident”.
“During a medical consultation for the populations, a Chadian soldier who was consulting attacked a French nurse with a scalpel, who had to use his weapon”, confirmed, on condition of anonymity, a French Forces official in Sahel based in N’Djamena but which have a base in Faya-Largeau housing 40 soldiers.
The state of the French soldier is “stabilized”
“We do not know the reasons for the attack. The nurse received three scalpel blows to the chest, head and neck, but his condition is stabilized,” continued this source, assuring that the nurse had “had to defend himself”. This French garrison has been present in Faya-Largeau for forty years, said the French military source.