New information has emerged following the knife attack on Comorian President Azali Assoumani on Friday, September 13, 2024. The perpetrator of the attack, Ahmed Abdou, a young soldier, died in detention. His body was discovered in his cell on Saturday, September 14.
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With our correspondent in Moroni, Abdallah Mzembaba
The government and the public prosecutor communicated on the facts during a brief press briefing. The prosecutor Ali Mohamed Djounaid indicated that Ahmed Abdou, the attacker of the president Azali Assoumaniagitated during his arrest, had been placed in isolation to calm down.
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He then returned to the ” discovery » of his body the next morning: « The President’s security agents immediately restrained the youth and later handed him over to investigators. When investigators arrived this morning (Saturday) to question him, they found him lying on the ground and unconscious. The doctor arrived and after examining him, he pronounced him dead. “No information on the cause of his death has been given at this time.
During the press conference, the Minister of Energy, Aboubacar Said Anli, reassured about the state of health of the president, despite his return to the hospital on Friday evening and his public absence, before admitting half-heartedly that he is injured in the head: ” He was treated. He is doing well. He is at home. And where he was hit, the doctors who are treating him reacted and stitches were given. “The minister added that the president was hit at the level of the ” scalp, (…) something that bleeds a lot “.
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In the public opinion, several questions remain unanswered: what pushed the young soldier to commit this act? Did he act alone? And in what circumstances did he die, while he was in the custody of investigators? Two investigations are underway, one into the attack, the other into the death of the young soldier.