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French soldiers accused of sexual abuse : EUFOR RCA

French soldiers are accused of sexually abusing children in the center at Bangui airport, Central African capital, between December 2013 and June 2014. After the rape charges brought against French soldiers in the CAR, the correspondent of France Info locally collected particularly explicit testimony about the alleged practices of French and Georgian military :
"This Thursday on the camp of the airport in Bangui M'Poko there is consternation. "Of course we knew" launches a woman very upset "but nobody listens to us." She says she has witnessed the sexual assault: "The French, the Georgians, when children come like that ask for a little food, 'before you have to suck me first ..." In a tent all close to the road, Jean was ringside. He said he saw soldiers abusing minors. "It was the night the French military ration packs give children and rape them. And the Georgian military, they were three on a sixteen year old girl at the entrance to the airport." Bangui is the disgust dominates. The prosecutor of Bangui announced the opening of an investigation. "We will contact the UN office responsible for this case and the French authorities to ask them to give us the documents relating thereto" said the prosecutor of the capital of CAR.

After The Guardian, the children described how they were sexually exploited in return for food and money. One 11-year-old boy said he was abused when he went out looking for food. A nine-year-old described being sexually abused with his friend by two French soldiers at the IDP camp when they went to a checkpoint to look for something to eat. The child described how the soldiers forced him and his friend to carry out a sex act. The report describes how distressed the child was when disclosing the abuse and how he fled the camp in terror after the assault. Some of the children were able to give good descriptions of the soldiers involved...

And this isn`t the first case. Dont forget the same accusation during the ARTEMIS Operation in the RDC, never clearly refuted.

Source : Le Monde, France Info and The Guardian