A disagreement around the construction or not of a new mosque degenerated on Saturday into violence between Muslims, who killed one, in Yorobodi, a village in the Center-East of Côte d'Ivoire (Ghana border) where a curfew was established, according to concordant sources.
“Unfortunately there is the death of a young man. The curfew is instituted in Yorobodi from 8 pm to 6 am ” declared Daouda Ouattara the mayor of the commune of Sandegué, on which Yorobodi (80 km from Bondoukou) depends. "Everything started with an offer from a rich man to help with the construction of a new mosque in Yorobodi," Kamagaté Abou, a resident of Bondoukou, told AFP by telephone.
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One camp is in favor of the rehabilitation and enlargement of the old mosque, the other composed for the most part of young people want a new mosque accusing the local preacher of having hidden "fetishes inside the old mosque. Something that has yet to be verified, ” said the communications officer for the great imam of Bondoukou Sidiki Ouattara.
Following opposition to the destruction of the old mosque, a group of young people from Abidjan, helped by part of the population, partially demolished the mosque on Saturday, according to witnesses. They then went to the preacher's home where clashes took place with other residents. A youth was killed there, witnesses said.
The army and the gendarmerie have been deployed in the area.
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