A main leader of the opposition coalition to the military junta in Chad, who organized a demonstration against France on Saturday, was arrested on Tuesday May 17, police and a member of his movement announced.
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This announcement risks further delaying the "
inclusive national dialogue
" between the junta, the opposition and the armed groups, already postponed several times, and which should lead to "
free and democratic elections
" after an 18-month transition.
The lawyer “
Max Loalngar was arrested following the march of May 14, 2022 transformed into a violent demonstration.
It should be noted that he is one of the organizers of the said march
, “said the police on his Facebook page.
“
Two vehicles (…) came to take him from his mother to drive him in an unknown direction
”, confirmed to AFP Michel Barka, spokesperson for Wakit Tamma, the main opposition coalition of which Me Loalngar is the coordinator.
Vandalism and 12 police officers injured
On Saturday, the demonstration to protest against France and its military presence had overflowed.
Seven gas stations of the French oil group Total had been vandalized and 12 police officers injured, according to the police.
When President Idriss Déby Itno was killed more than a year ago at the front against the rebels, his son General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno took over the reins of the country at the head of a group of 15 generals, immediately dubbed by the international community, led by Paris.
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Other putschist officers, however, received international sanctions in Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea.
On Monday, five opposition executives have already been charged
with "gathering causing disturbances to public order, bodily harm to people, arson and destruction of property
", placed under arrest warrant and imprisoned in the Klessoum remand center in the capital.