A joint investigation by the Chadian and French armies is underway to determine the circumstances of the tragedy.
A French military medic on Tuesday shot and killed a Chadian soldier he was treating who attacked him with a scalpel at a French forces base in Faya-Largeau, in northern Chad, a local governor told AFP .
“A Chadian soldier, who was not in normal condition, went for a bandage in the military base of the French army, took a scalpel and injured a French military medic“Explained to AFP by telephone 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.
Demonstrations in Faya
“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 a “isolated act“. “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 weaponconfirmed, on condition of anonymity, an official of the French Forces in the Sahel based in N’Djamena but which has a base in Faya-Largeau housing 40 soldiers.
“The reasons for the attack are not known. 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 themselves“. A joint investigation by the Chadian and French armies is underway to determine the circumstances of “the incidentconcluded General Maïde Kebir. This French garrison has been present in Faya-Largeau for 40 years, said the French military source.