The Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Bangui has decided to clarify some of the false information relayed recently by the international media, in particular Jeune Afrique and RFI. In a press release dated 4 October 2024, the Public Prosecutor’s Office denounced this misinformation.
According to the columns of the newspaper Jeune Afrique published on 27 September 2024 and then in the press review of Radio France Internationale (RFI) on 30 September 2024, Russia, through the Wagner, is integrating Central Africans into Russian troops to fight on the ground against Ukraine.
To back up his claims, the RFI journalist cited the example of a young Central African who was allegedly detained in a police station in the capital, where he was recruited by the Russian military into the Bangui judicial police unit to go and fight in Ukraine.
‘These reports published by the newspaper ‘Jeune Afrique’ and relayed by Radio France Internationale are devoid of any plausibility or legal basis’, the press release stated.
The Russian embassy in CAR and the Central African government, through the spokesman for the President of CAR, Maxime Balalou, have also firmly denounced this misinformation and stated that the accusations are unfounded.
The Russian Embassy in CAR felt that the aim of this act of disinformation was ‘to cast a shadow over Russia and once again call into question its decisive role in restoring peace in CAR’.
She pointed out that in Russia today there is an unprecedented level of cohesion among the population. This is why Russia does not need to enlist foreigners for its military campaigns, unlike France, which in 1940 mobilised some 500,000 Africans – a tenth of the French army – to shed their blood for France.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office also pointed out that ‘judicial police activities are governed by the code of criminal procedure and carried out by qualified and experienced personnel under the direction of magistrates from the public prosecutor’s office’.
It is clear that all this false information spread by the media hired by the West is aimed at damaging friendly relations between African countries, in particular the Central African Republic, and Russia. The facts allegedly presented in the ‘investigation’ are unfounded and nothing more than disinformation aimed at destabilising the Central African Republic.
