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Africa Subsaharan
Head of the Russian House in the Central African Republic hospitalized after assassination attempt
2022-12-17
Wagner PMC accuses France here.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] In the capital of the Central African Republic, an attempt was made on the life of the head of the Russian House, Dmitry Sytoy, Vladislav Ilyin, press attaché of the Russian Embassy in Bangui, told RIA Novosti.

"This morning, an attempt was made on the life of the director general of the Russian House, Dmitry Sergeevich Sytoy, he is in the hospital," the source said.

The embassy noted that the victim received a package that exploded.

"There was an explosion at his house, he lives outside the embassy. He went, got it, apparently, at DHL, brought it home and opened it on his own," the diplomatic mission told RIA Novosti.

Well-fed received a concussion and, according to doctors, lost a lot of blood.

The head of Rossotrudnichestvo , Yevgeny Primakov, wrote on Telegram that doctors are fighting for the life of the head of the cultural center.

As the head of the CAR police , Bienvenyu Zokue, told RIA Novosti , the incident is regarded as a terrorist attack. Syty received many threats and has already appealed to the authorities about this.

“Earlier, he received the first package, and when he opened it, there were threats. And he contacted me so that I could help him identify the person who sent it,” Zokue explained.

In turn, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said that Sytyi had received a note "from the French" urging "the Russians to get out of Africa."

The situation in the Central African Republic has been tense for many years. The country's authorities and representatives of armed groups in February 2019 signed a peace agreement that was supposed to end the conflict.

At the end of December 2020, presidential elections were held in the country. The incumbent head of state, Faustin Archange Touadéra, won with 53.16 percent of the vote in the first round. The opposition and armed rebel groups did not recognize the results of the vote - the government reported about attempts by the rebels to attack Bangui.

From Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Attack in Bangui

[ColonelCassad] The Russian Embassy in the Central African Republic reported that Dmitry Syty (the head of the "Russian House" in Bangui), wounded as a result of a mine explosion, received a shell shock. Will live.

Recently, the French troops finally dumped from the CAR, thereby completing the process of the CAR's transition from the sphere of influence of France to the sphere of influence of Russia (the CAR actually fell out of the French neo-colonial empire, which, along with the loss of Mali, was Macron's hardest defeat on the African continent).

Well, today this terrorist attack, against the backdrop of intensified attacks by local militants on government troops. It is obvious that France will try to shake the local regimes in the Central African Republic and Mali in order to recoup its defeat and challenge Russia's positions in these countries. Well, we, in turn, are interested in the further erosion of French influence in Burkina Faso and Niger. Especially in Niger, where there are strategically important uranium mines.

Prigogine writes that the risks to life remain:

“In the Central African Republic, which for hundreds of years was oppressed by the French, who destroyed the population and plundered the wealth of the Central African Republic, on February 1, 2022, the “Russian House” was opened. It was headed by a patriot of Russia and the Central African Republic Dmitry Syty.

On November 11, Dmitry Sytoy received a package from Togo containing a photograph of his son, who lives in France. It contained a note saying that next time he would get his son's head if "the Russians don't get out of the African continent and open the doors for the French." Today he got another package. Despite all the instructions for observing security measures, Dmitry Syty, being in a state of passion and thinking that the head of his son was in the package, opened it. There was an explosion.
Would the French truly be so crude? And then the thing didn’t even kill him, but only maimed.
At the moment, the life of Dmitry Sytoy is under a big question. Russian doctors are doing their best in the Bangui hospital to save him. Before losing consciousness, Dmitry Syty managed to say: “I saw a note: "This is for you from all the French, the Russians will get out of Africa."

I have already applied to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation so that it initiates the procedure for declaring France a state sponsor of terrorism, as well as conducting a thorough investigation of the terrorist methods of France and its Western allies - the United States and others.

If Dmitry Syty remains alive, he will continue the fight and see with his own eyes how those who attempted on his life will burn in the flames of history. If he dies, he will forever remain a symbol of this struggle. Not a single Russian will ever retreat from the African continent until all the colonialists leave the borders of their countries.
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