Violent demonstration outside French military base in Ivory Coast
AFP, December, 2003
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ABIDJAN (AFP) — Hundreds of youths staged a violent demonstration outside a French military base in Abidjan following weekend clashes in central Ivory Coast between French peacekeepers and supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo.
The protesters, who numbered between 300 and 400, started a fire outside the gate of the base of the 43rd Marine Infantry Battalion before French military police dispersed them with teargas.
French soldiers then put up barbed wire fencing outside the base, before the protesters returned, pelting the French military installation with stones and preventing any cars carrying Europeans from approaching the base, an AFP journalist said Monday.
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According to the French consulate, a Spanish national, whom the demonstrators mistook for a Frenchwoman, was "harassed" by the crowd.
Ivorian security forces intervened briefly to try to disperse the demonstration, but then pulled back and stood watch on the sidelines.
The demonstration, which flouted a ban on public ...
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