Fri May 24 22:27:07 SAST 2013
Fri May 24 22:27:07 SAST 2013

Central African PM stopped at Paris airport carrying bush meat

Oct 26, 2012 | Sapa-AFP | 2 comments

French customs officials fined former Central African prime minister Martin Ziguele after he was found carrying 11.8 kilograms (26 pounds) of bushmeat, mainly monkey, on his arrival at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport.

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 Mainly of a protected species 

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Investigators said the meat "mainly of a protected species", was in his luggage when he arrived on an Air France flight from Bangui.

Customs inspectors found a total 600 kilograms of meat in passengers' luggage on the Bangui flight, judicial officials said.

Ziguele, who was prime minister between 2001 and 2003 and who was defeated by Francois Bozize in presidential elections in 2005 and 2011, said the meat was for his personal consumption.

The amount of the fine was not revealed.

 

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Fri May 24 22:27:12 SAST 2013 ::
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Oct 29, 2012

Shredder

Bush meat? Is it the one that ended causing HIV to human beings?
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Oct 30, 2012

Papage

I wondered why some African Leaders behave like Monkeys
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