The Monde.fr with AFP and Reuters •
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- A shooting took place in Bamako Friday night bar, killing at least five dead, including one French, one Belgian and two Malians.
- Two suspects were arrested.
A shootout erupted in a bar-restaurant Bamako, the capital of Mali, on the night of Friday 6 to Saturday, March 7, killing at least five people. François Hollande was the first official to claim that the shooting was an attack, denouncing it with “ the greatest strength ”
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Following the results available Saturday morning, at least five people were killed: one French, one Belgian, two Malians and Occidental, whose nationality n has not been identified yet, according to our information.
It would, in addition to the dead, nearly a dozen serious injuries. Among the wounded included three Swiss, including a woman very seriously affected, said hospital sources told Agence France-Presse. Are also found “two international experts working with the United Nations Department of fight against mines Minusma” , the UN Mission in Mali, said its leader.
The Elysee confirmed that French, being identified, was “ most likely ” among the victims. In contrast, “ there would be no French among the wounded but checks are being ,” says one.
For his part, the head of Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, confirmed to AFP that a Belgian national who died in the attack. The latter was security officer of the European Delegation in Mali, said the head of the EU diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, having tweeted information
The two victims Mali are a policeman. – which, according to a local source to World , tried to intervene when shooting -. and a private home guard
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How did the shooting?
The exact scenario is not yet clear. According to information from World , is a small unit that launched shortly after midnight local time, a lightning attack against the bar La Terrasse, frequented by expatriates and high place of life night in Bamako in the Hippodrome area.
It is reached by a staircase. Security officials guarding the entrance were unable to defend themselves against the attackers. At least one member of the small unit is mounted on the first floor, once neutralized the guards and opened fire on the customers of the bar.
On hearing the gunfire and explosion, a resident of the seal area the phone said: “ It happened very, very quickly ‘, admitting having barricaded waiting for the day. According to a UN source contacted by the World , a grid grenade was found at the scene. A strong explosion was heard more gunshots, fed.
Meanwhile, RFI reported that the man who opened fire then “ fled in a vehicle driven by an accomplice, “ the two men being ‘ hooded .” Shortly after leaving the scene of the attack, they would have crossed a police car and a new exchange of fire took place.
Finally, witnesses told the BBC that four people have fled the restaurant shouting in Arabic “Allah Akbar” (God is great), but this information could not be verified immediately
Two suspects, nor the identity nor nationality were specified, were arrested Saturday, according to police sources Malian. They “are being interrogated” , said one of the sources, adding that they had begun to provide investigators with information “interesting” . The attack has not been claimed.
Meanwhile, the Paris prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation, judicial sources announced Agence France-Presse. A survey of this type is automatic when French is the victim of a crime abroad.
It was opened for murder in connection with a terrorist undertaking and association of terrorist criminals. She was assigned to the Directorate General of Internal Security and Counter-Terrorism Sub-Directorate of the Judicial Police.
Since 2012 and the breakthrough in northern Mali groups close jihadi galaxy, the prospect of an attack further south was a subject of recurring fears, despite the signing of a stabilization minimum agreement signed earlier this week. In Bamako, the city in which to live normally, places frequented by the expatriate clientele (the numbers increased since the deployment of Minusma) had been deserted for a while.
Then gradually, the ” guard fell “, as indicates a local in World . The Embassy of France in Bamako sent a message advising “caution” to all French nationals living in the Malian capital.
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