The body of the Ivorian teenager discovered dead on January 8 in the landing gear of an airplane at Roissy arrived Friday evening in Abidjan, according to the Minister of Transport, Amadou Koné, who welcomed it. “It is one of our compatriots who died in dramatic conditions. It is normal for the government to give its support, ”said Amadou Koné to the press.
The Ivorian minister, along with family members, also stressed that the government had largely contributed to the operation with a view to organizing "a dignified funeral" for the 14-year-old victim, Laurent Barthélémy Ani Guibahi, found dead in Paris airport aboard an airplane from Abidjan.
Hanging on the airplane wheels
“I had to go take my child's body. I'm relieved, I'm happy to bring my child's body back to the family, ”said the victim's father, Marius Ani.
The gray waxed wooden coffin carried by four people took the direction of the Undertakers in the Treichville district, in the south of Abidjan.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the 14-year-old child climbed a wall of the airport then hung on the wheels of the plane just before takeoff. He had decided to leave alone, without warning anyone. He died of cold or due to lack of oxygen. Temperatures drop to -50 ° C above 9200 m, the altitude of commercial flights, and the space where the landing gear is housed is neither heated nor pressurized.
Lively emotion
The boy's death moved the whole country, but some were also worried about the loopholes it revealed in the security measures around the airport of Abidjan, in a country under the threat of jihadist.
Côte d'Ivoire was affected by an attack on March 13, 2016 (19 dead) on the beach of the popular seaside resort of Grand-Bassam, near the airport.
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The evictions of residents began in mid-January to create a security perimeter. Supervised by a large police force, the bulldozers destroyed areas west of the airport, destroying in particular the village of Aérocanal which had several hundred inhabitants.