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| Burundi Arrests Brother of Suspected France Islamist Attacker |
| 2014-12-25 |
[AnNahar] Burundi said Monday they had placed in durance vilePlease don't kill me! the brother of a man who was killed in La Belle France after a suspected Islamist-motivated attack. A front man for Burundi's National Intelligence Service said Brice Nzohabonayo was detained in the capital Bujumbura shortly after his brother Bertrand Nzohabonayo attacked a cop shoppe in the central French town of Joue-les-Tours. Bertrand Nzohabonayo was rubbed out Saturday after entering the cop shoppe armed with a knife, seriously wounding two officers -- slashing one in the face -- and hurting another. "We arrested Brice Nzohabonayo on Saturday while he was staying with one of his uncles in Bujumbura. He had come from La Belle France and was spending several days here," intelligence front man Télesphore Bigirimana told AFP. "He has been detained in our premises and he is being questioned," the official added, saying Burundi's intelligence service was in contact with its French counterparts. He added that Burundi had told La Belle France last year that the two brothers -- who regularly visited Burundi -- should be considered suspect because of their holy warrior religious views. In Saturday's incident in La Belle France, the assailant -- a French national born in Burundi in 1994-- cried "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") during the attack Police sources in Burundi said the brother gave no resistance as he was arrested. Investigators said they were seeking to establish if any attacks were planned in Christian-majority Burundi -- which is a contributor to the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force battling Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab Islamists in Somalia. |
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