Aristide sues over 'death threats'

[seemslikeadream]

THE ousted Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, filed a lawsuit in Paris yesterday against unnamed French officials, accusing them of "death threats, kidnapping and sequestration".

Mr Aristide’s French lawyer, Gilbert Collard, said the exiled president accused France of playing a role in his departure from Haiti on 29 February, when he was forced out by an army revolt and pressure from the United States.

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=370652004




Thursday April 01, 2004 10:19 - (SA)

PARIS - Haiti's ousted president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has lodged a lawsuit in Paris claiming coercion involving US and French officials forced him from power, his lawyer and legal authorities said.

The suit, for "threats, death threats, abduction and illegal detention" was lodged Tuesday, Aristide's lawyer, Gilbert Collard said.

It designates the defendant as "X" - a French legal term for persons unknown - but specifically makes mention of the French and US ambassadors in Haiti, Thierry Burkard and James Foley, as well as a French writer, Regis Debray, and the sister of French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, Veronique Albanel, in the deposition.

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimes/newsst/newsst1080807580.asp

[demdave]

1. The French and Americans on the same side? Bush IS a uniter.

:evilgrin:

[seemslikeadream]

2. Oui, mais j'ai mal au bras!

[KoKo]

3. I think he names France because they are members of International Court,

and the US isn't. Since the French were supposedly working with the US on removing him, this should be interesting to watch play out. The French will likely point out that they were partners with us...

:shrug: