{"id":51309,"date":"2024-08-27T13:18:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/three-french-diplomats-assaulted-by-police-in-dr-congo\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:14:42","slug":"three-french-diplomats-assaulted-by-police-in-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/three-french-diplomats-assaulted-by-police-in-dr-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Three French diplomats assaulted by police in DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statement released by the justice ministry on Monday indicated that police were among a group of individuals who raided the site in an attempt to &#8220;oust&#8221; a French diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic sources told the media that during the scuffle, an embassy cultural cooperation diplomat was struck and held for nearly three hours, while two other diplomats were &#8220;shoved around but not wounded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The justice ministry stated that police officers and officials from the prosecutor\u2019s office involved in the assault on Saturday, August 24, 2024, have been apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Foreign Minister Therese Wagner Kayikwamba expressed &#8220;deep regret&#8221; over the incident, which she said &#8220;violated international conventions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, France&#8217;s ambassador, Bruno Aubert, reportedly met with President Felix Tshisekedi on Monday to discuss the matter. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We discussed this situation and the measures that will be taken, some already, by the Congolese authorities to ensure such an incident does not happen again,&#8221; Aubert was quoted as saying in a statement released by Kayikwamba&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The ownership of the site where the incident occurred has been contested for many years. The French embassy has occupied the site since 1972, and last year, a court ruled in favor of France in the dispute.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-74235 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4517889-350875736.jpg\" alt=\"A statement released by the justice ministry on Monday indicated that police were among a group of individuals who raided the site in an attempt to &quot;oust&quot; a French diplomat.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three French diplomats were assaulted over the weekend in DR Congo\u2019s capital, Kinshasa, following a raid on a site used by the French embassy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000074234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000074234,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4517889-350875736.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4517889-350875736.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4517889-350875736.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4517889-350875736.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4517889-350875736.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/4517889-350875736.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000074234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51309"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51309"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}