Re: Togo team bus shot at
Thomas Dossevi was in the bus of the Togolese delegation when the vehicle was attacked by rebels at the entrance to the Angolan border. "We were strafed, but then we were flanked by two police cars, we told the Nantes striker. There were two players and officials injured. The two players in question are the guardian of GSI Pontivy, Kodjovi Obilale, and defender of FC Vaslui, Abou Diaby. Among the injured were the bus driver, an assistant coach, a doctor of the delegation and a journalist who accompanied the selection. At CMJ, another player of Togo, the Grenoble Romao, spoke of seven injured in total.
The Togo no longer wants to play
Since the end of the civil war in Angola (1975-2002), the enclave of Cabinda, north of the country remains a source of tension between the separatists and the ruling party, MPLA, against a backdrop of economic greed. Cabinda is indeed a major oil province, the source of the wealth of the country's second largest exporter of crude oil on the continent, after Nigeria. - J.LB.
This serious incident should call into question the participation of Togo to the CAN and the overall conduct of the competition itself. "It does not reflect the possible remedies, but it's true that nobody wants to play. It is not capable ". The attacker said "think before any state of health (his) injuries because there was much blood spilled on the ground. For now, there was not much new except that they are parties in various hospitals. In these cases, we think of our loved ones, people we love because we would really have to stay there ... "
According to RMC, the attack took place around 15.15, while for the players had just entered the enclave of Cabinda, one of four sites in the 27th edition of the African continental competition which must move all four teams Group B (Togo, Coit d'Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso). The bus had left earlier Pointe-Noire, Congo Brazzaville. Witnesses said the attack was very brutal. The delegation was protected by lying on the coach whose entire front was targeted
