Mohamed Bazoum, the deposed president of the Niger Republic, reportedly tried to flee to Nigeria.
According to the junta in Niger, he has been held by the military since a coup on July 26.
The interim authorities said that Bazoum and his family intended to take a car to the outskirts of the city Niamey, where they would then board a helicopter to travel to the neighboring country of Nigeria with the assistance of spies in the security forces.
According to the regime’s spokesman Amadou Abdramane, the former president Mohamed Bazoum attempted to flee from his place of imprisonment at around three in the morning with his family, two chefs, and two security personnel.
He stated in the broadcast late on Thursday that the escape attempt was unsuccessful and that “the main actors and some of the accomplices” had been detained.
Additionally, an investigation has been opened.
According to Abdramane, the initial step of the escape plot called for Bazoum to travel to a location outside of the capital Niamey.
He continued by criticizing Bazoum’s “irresponsible attitude” and revealing that they had intended to go on helicopters “belonging to a foreign power” in the direction of Nigeria.
Since being overthrown by the military on July 26, Bazoum has refused to quit. Along with his wife Haziza and son Salem, he is being detained at his apartment within the presidential palace.
According to Bazoum’s attorneys, he filed a lawsuit in September against those who deposed him before a court of the Economic Community of West African States.
Additionally, they stated that the UN Human Rights Council will be hearing his case.
In another incident, on Thursday, October 19, the first contingent of French soldiers that had been ordered to leave Niger by its post-coup military leadership arrived by road in neighboring Chad.
After traveling for 10 days and working with Nigerien forces, the convoy “has arrived without any particular problems” in N’Djamena, according to army spokesman Pierre Gaudilliere for Agence France-Presse.
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