In Bangui, a story has been circulating on the messaging services since this weekend and is shocking, with supporting photos. A craftsman was sent to the emergency room this Saturday, June 22 after passing through the hands of ex-Wagner Russian mercenaries. He was taken away and beaten because his customers refused to pay the set price for engravings.
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Until then, the Russian mercenaries passing through the Notre-Dame cathedral market in Bangui behaved like all customers, often negotiating prices or sometimes complaining about the quality of the work provided. But a dispute took another turn this Saturday for one of the exhibitors, when he was taken military man. After failing several times to get their hands on him, the disgruntled people called on the Central African police, presenting the craftsman as a “rebel”.
Left for several hours in the hands of the Wagners in their airport camp, the latter was subjected to simulated suffocation and a thorough beating. It will take the intervention of very high authorities in the Central African Republic to ensure that he is released and sent to hospital.
Returning home without an X-ray or scanner, this wood sculptor complained of pain and especially dizziness caused by the blows received to the head. Originally, according to the account of blogger Rosmon Zokoué confirmed by two witnesses, the refusal by customers to pay the value fixed in advance for the engraving of three ebony wood plaques. These oval plaques engraved “1W9” are one of the symbols of Wagner that mercenaries have recently sprayed in multiple places in the capital.
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