Question 6326 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr. Aurélien Taché alerts the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the alarming political situation in Chad. While Mahamat Idriss Déby, President of the Republic of Chad since 2021, claims to commit his country to democratic reforms, the Chadian opposition has been the subject of violent and bloody repression for four years. This repression primarily affects members of the Socialist Party Without Borders (PSF). Members of this party suffer arbitrary detentions. Some were kidnapped. In the worst cases, the repression against this party even led to assassinations against the former president of the party and his relatives. Indeed, Yaya Dillo Djérou, Chadian political opponent and former president of the PSF, was assassinated during an assault led by the Chadian army against the headquarters of his party in N'djamena, on February 27 and 28, 2024. From the headquarters of the party, today only dust remains, making it difficult to collect evidence on the spot. This assassination is the second, since already in February 2021, the mother of Yaya Dillo Djérou was assassinated by the regime, in an enterprise intended to terrorize the political opponent. After his death in February 2024, attacks against members of his party increased. In September 2024, Robert Gam, Secretary General of the PSF was removed. He has been detained ever since. This kidnapping follows a press conference organized by this opponent, where he called for the immediate release of numerous party activists, who were - and still are - arbitrarily detained by the regime. In view of this situation, the MP asks what means the Government will use to shed light on the assassination of Yaya Dillo Djérou and to allow the release of Robert Gam and other political prisoners. The family of the deceased, who is fighting to obtain an independent international investigation, has in fact announced its intention to take legal action in France in view of the suspected involvement of Franco-Chadian citizens in the assassination of the former president of the PSF. If necessary, will the Government make all the information available to French justice available to the ministries of the armed forces and foreign affairs, present in Chad at the time of the events? Will the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs make the necessary efforts to obtain the launch of an independent international investigation? Finally, he asks him if French diplomacy will mobilize to obtain the release of political prisoners in Chad.

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