In Niamey, attackers attacked the residence of Seini Oumarou, the president of the National Assembly, Friday night, June 11 until Saturday, June 12. Terrorist attack or crime by petty criminals in Niamey? Monopolizes the case. An investigation is underway.
as reported from Niamey, Moussa Kaka
Armed men on motorcycles shot at National Guard agents at the home of National Assembly President Seini Oumarou. The record is about one guard killed and another wounded. The information, which was passed on on social networks, quickly made the rounds: “Terrorists tried to assassinate the President of the National Assembly”, we read in some posts.
Security sources close to the investigation say that in order for there to be an attack, someone must be targeted. When it comes to Seini Oumarou’s home, the sources are clear: the motif is the 4 x 4 Foker vehicle parked in front of his home. The first pictures of the video surveillance and the way in which armed bandits are driving prove it well: the person of the President of the National Assembly was not the target.
AK 47
In these pictures we can clearly see that the National Guard is fleeing to take protection from the first shots and thus abandon their post and the vehicle. It was without much difficulty that the armed bandits took possession of the vehicle. Since they have not been able to start the quad bike due to lack of key, they fled before the other guards came from inside the home.
According to well-informed sources, it is the profile of the armed bandits that will lead the investigation. Is it about Niameyou’s little crime against an outside invasion to steal the pickup, one wonders. The weapon used is an AK47, which is different from the PA used by petty criminals in Niamey.
For Ousseini Salatou, head of the communications cell for the President of the National Assembly, reached by phone SoniaRolley in the African service, attackers cannot be thieves in the classical sense. “Either they are real highways working in our villages, or they are jihadists,” he explains.
Ousseini Salatou, Head of Communications for Seini Oumarou
It was an attack that happened around one in the morning. Two people came on a motorcycle. They attacked the first agent they killed. There was another agent in front of the front door. they also fired, but thankfully he was rescued. They wanted to take one of the protective vehicles, there were no keys on it. They could fly. We could not catch them, we could not identify them, were it the cars that brought them? We do not know. Their clothes are similar to those of jihadists. They are not thieves in the sense we understand it, because they dare to attack the residence of the President of the National Assembly, the country’s second personality. They know there is a close guard. And thieves are not looking for a vehicle to sell it, but to use it in the field. Either they are real highways working in our villages, or they are really jihadists.
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