The Ivorian Prime Minister Patrick Achi and Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, today inaugurated the International Academy for the Fight against Terrorism AILCT in Jacqueville, about 60 kilometers from Abidjan. The first part of the project has been delivered, but the website is up and running and can be run at full speed. We will do training, strategy and practice there. An academy created on the initiative of France and Côte d’Ivoire. A decision taken by Emmanuel Macron and Allassane Ouattara following the Grand Bassam attacks on March 13, 2016.
as reported from Abidjan, Jean-luc Aplogan
Very solemn inauguration, military music, awards and in the name of tradition a libation from a local remarkable site covers more than 1000 hectares and it is the first part of the site that has been delivered. It cost 15 billion, for phase 2 it takes 25 billion, according to the Ivorian Minister of Defense.
The academy looks like an anti-terrorist campus for those involved in the fight against terrorism.
French Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian evokes his call and meaning: “Our responsibility is to fight this common enemy whose actions in the Sahel directly affect us. AICLT is at the same time an inter-ministerial school for managers, a training and hardening center for intervention units and a strategic research institute. ”
The Ivorian Prime Minister, Pascal Achi, then delivered a muscular speech with war-like accents, “We will never give in. We must gather, we must stand up. It will be here in Jacqueville, the role of the international academy ”.
All the speakers paid tribute to the late Hamed Bakayoko, who laid the foundation stone.
The last attack that mourned Burkina Faso has been mentioned several times with anger and emotion, Jean-Yves Le Drian announced that he will go there on Friday 11 June.
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