Terrorist threat – Colonel Ravalomanana: “we don’t invent anything”

On the day following that of the recovery of both bombs whose first exploded in a supermarket without making victims, the political authorities suspected the “objectors” very quickly, in clear the legalistic supporters of president Ravalomanana. They denied any involvement in terrorist acts and condemned such project unanimously. 

Finally, only the authorities of the transition, including the investigators, have been pointed at. They have been suspected to organize a plot to mess up the reputation of the transition contestation movement in Ankorondrano. The outcome of the investigation has therefore a special taste to the highly ecstatic colonel Richard Ravalomanana, Chief of the state police district in Antananarivo. 

“We don’t invent anything, there is actually a terrorist group in Antananarivo, they already confessed “, confidently said colonel Ravalomanana, showing a CD ROM. “We shot the confessions, they spoke without constraints, they owed up because they have been arrested “, he added. The catch is important, material proofs proudly exhibited to the press: explosives, cell phones, cars’ keys, batteries, detonators, shotgun, cash…   

The investigation has advanced very quickly thanks to the camera shots from the affected supermarket. “The pictures were not very clean but we could more or less distinguish the face, it has thus been confirmed by witnesses “, replied Colonel Ravalomanana. He told that the suspect has been traced to dig up the network. “Nobody can say that we didn’t respect the human rights, they have been arrested on the public way, the district attorney signed the search mandate at 04 o’clock in the morning “, said the state police officer. 

They are eight, six men, a minor and a woman. “They planned a bomb blast around Gastro Pizza Analakely, a highly populated location along the «magnificent evenings “, they gave up because there was too much people “. Colonel Ravalomanana nearly pleaded for the terrorist apprentices. “It’s a good thing that they have this Madagascan soul which dissuaded them to commit an appalling crime, they decided to go around and to wait for the crowd to leave, and then we challenged them “, he told. 

Among the alleged terrorists, there were three security officers who worked for the MBS channel, a former messenger of Tiko. Their incentive would be, according to their confessions, revenge because they lost their livelihood because of the Putsch. The political thesis is not excluded by colonel Ravalomanana who affirms that the terrorist acts aimed to create an insecurity climate because” Antananarivo was too quiet” before the SADC’s summit. The presumed backers of the small group would be in France, a Madagascan national and a foreigner with an Italian accent. They visibly put their foot in it by hiring conscientious terrorists. So better, the worse has been avoided.