TERRORIST ATTACK IN BURKINA FASO AND

ALWAYS NO CLAIM

Several hours after the start of the attack, the government reported on an interim report of eight dead among Burkinabe police and more than 80 wounded.

According to the Burkinabe government, at least eight attackers and eight law enforcement personnel were killed.

"A little more than 80 injured were taken care of. Of these 80 wounded, a dozen have fairly severe injuries and among these twelve, three are considered serious, " said the Minister of Communication, Rémi Dandjinou, making a new assessment at 19 hours.

Thirty deaths: here is the record of the two attacks perpetrated this Friday in downtown Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, targeting on the one hand the embassy of France but also the staff of the Burkinabe army. For now, the local authorities are still trying to establish who is at the origin of these deadly attacks, which have not yet been claimed.

In Paris, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that no French national had been killed or wounded

The staff was hit by a car bomb, said Friday evening, the Minister of Security, Clement Sawadogo. "The vehicle was full of explosives, the load was huge" and caused "huge damage". "There was a meeting on the G5 Sahel".

Clement Sawadogo, the Minister of Security, said a military meeting for the creation of the multinational anti-jihadist force G5-Sahel, which includes Mali, Burkina, Niger, Chad and Mauritania, was "maybe " aimed. He added that the balance sheet could have been much heavier, the room initially planned for this meeting having been "literally destroyed by the explosion".

The French special forces of the "Saber" operation, based in Ouagadougou, have come to reinforce "The French forces in Burkina intervened in support of the action of the Burkinabe army, they did not take part directly in the "Action," said the spokesman of the staff of the French army, Colonel Patrick Steiger. French helicopters flew over the capital.

"Our country was once again the target this Friday of dark forces," denounced late Friday the president of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré while the country is since 2015 the target of jihadist attacks that had never reached such a level organization.

The government condemned "cowardly and cowardly acts , " while urging "the people to keep calm and collaborate with the defense and security forces . "

In the early evening, French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed the "full commitment of France" in the Sahel. "Everything suggests that these are terrorist groups," said Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian earlier on LCI, recalling France's determination "to fight relentlessly against these terrorist groups who want to destabilize the Sahel.

"A flagrant investigation was opened for attempted murders in connection with a terrorist and criminal terrorist criminal conspiracy organization , " said Paris prosecutor's office, competent because the attack targeted nationals and French interests . The investigations were entrusted to the Directorate-General of Internal Services (DGSI) and to the police officers of the Counter-Terrorism Sub-Directorate (SDAT).

For journalist Antoine Glaser interwieved Saturday 3 on RTL, specialist in Africa, this attack was very clearly targeting France. "The other attacks, in January 2016 and August 2017, targeted cafés, restaurants, expatriates, attacking a French embassy in Africa, the message is clear," says the author of the book Arrogant as a Frenchman in Africa, published by Fayard in 2016.

"It is an act of reprisal" , vis-à-vis France, whose armed troops are present in Mali and Niger neighboring Burkina Faso to fight against terrorism in the Sahel.