Col. Richard Ravalomanana: “don’t you say any more that I invent everything”

In the night of Saturday to Sunday July 19th the catch has been impressive. Bombs have been found then deactivated in targeted military camps. The intention to blast them was genuine. “The bombs found in Fort Duchesne should have exploded because the command has already been activated by a phone call. A bad connection aborted the process”, explained colonel Ravalomanana. 

A bomb explosion made one victim in Ambohibao. The state police affirmed that it is a terrorist. His poor handling led to the blast which costed him his life, serious wounds to a couple of his friends and slighter injuries to another of them. The used device has always been the same since the emergence of these hand made bombs: explosives, a phone, batteries, an electric circuit… 

The first investigations on the presumed terrorist network had already put forward the existence of a project to manufacture up to 3000 bombs. This announcement caused certain scepticism since the first stopped terrorist apprentices were amateurs with too limited expertises and a too good morality to cause collateral damages. 

The bomb attempts cannot be ignored. Colonel Richard invited the sceptics to face the reality. “Who dares to say that we tell lies… that these are patched up fairytales “, he shouted. “I sometimes come to tears when I notice that people are not always conscious of the danger “, he added. 

The state police officer didn’t go easy on the journalists who maintain the doubt in the opinion. “You have already seen that it blasted in a supermarket, don’t you say that these explosives seized today are the same as those already presented before “, he said with bitterness, sweeping all press opposition away. 

“names that have been mentioned, there is a former deputy, a former Chief of Staff, an ex-minister, a former person in charge from the ministry of Ministry of Finance “, revealed colonel Ravalomanana. He didn’t want in to say more, conscious that he is” already on the edge of the professional secret “. 

After having ruled out the hypothesis of the legalistic involvement in the projects of attempts, the officer now prudently puts the opposite forth. One of the presumed terrorist would have affirmed to be accustomed to the rallies of president Ravalomanana’s partisans.  He therefore shares “the same political target”, that is to say the motive for the arrest of the parliamentarian leaders of the democratic movement. Colonel Ravalomanana is in search of political backers of these extremists who are rejected and condemned by the pacific militants of the Magro place.