Malagasy crisis: France concerned about its little ones

France has been carefully looking after its citizens’ security since the crisis’ beginning, whatever their political inclination. The French embassy has never ever been denying protection to any involved but targeted French citizen in the run of the political crisis. 

Generally speaking, the HAT does find things harder whenever foreign diplomacy is poking its nose within reactionaries’ custody. So did it in Eliane Naiko’s case, former senator bullied and arrested in 2009 in one of Antananarivo city’s hotels. She had later on been released.  

The arrest of the designated consensual Convention’s president, Mamy Rakotoarivelo, was equally made impossible by France’s intervention. This time around, another French citizen has been wildly beaten up and taken away by HAT soldiers. 

France’s embassy has already asked the authorities for accounts about Uncle Ambroise’s arrest circumstances. This former legionary has generally been getting on well with the French embassy since the beginning of the crisis, despite Marc Ravalomanana’s led criticism of the French government’s political stand and role within Madagascar’s crisis. Ambroise Ravonison has often been serving as an interface between the French embassy and Marc Ravalomanana’s party.