French forces have deployed around France’s embassy in the Central African Republic after protesters angered by a rebel advance in the north of the country hurled stones at the building and tore down the French flag.
Violent protests erupted Wednesday in front of the French embassy in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, with hundreds of angry demonstrators hurling projectiles, burning tires and vandalising the building’s entrance.
An embassy source told FRANCE 24 that there are around 50 people, including women and children, barricaded inside.
They also said that there is a strong presence from the French army who is guarding the building.
Demonstrators accuse France of failing to help the army fight off rebel forces, who have occupied a large swathe of the country.
The rebels, known as the Seleka alliance, have in recent weeks taken a string of towns in the north of the land-locked country, which has been mostly unstable since independence from France in 1960.
“We are here at the French Embassy because it is France who colonised us. France has the tendancy to abandon us. We don’t need France anymore; France may as well take its embassy and leave,” one protester told an AFP reporter at the scene.
(FRANCE 24 with wires)
via Violent protests erupt at French embassy in Bangui – CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – FRANCE 24.
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