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A former senior security
official in Congo-Brazzaville, who is exiled in France, has been shot and badly
wounded in a Paris suburb, a French official has said, the AFP news agency
reports. Ferdinand
Mbaou, a 59-year-old former colonel, was attacked by "an individual who
shot him in the back near his home", said Yves Jannier, the chief
prosecutor in Pontoise.
The
gunman escaped, AFP reports.
It
says the shooting happened this week, but does not say exactly when.
Mr
Mbaou headed presidential security under former head of state Pascal Lissouba,
who was ousted in a 1997 coup by current President Denis Sassou Nguesso.
Mr
Sassou Nguesso has since been elected to two consecutive terms
in office and is expected to run for another term next year.
A
controversial referendum last month approved changing the constitution with 94%
of the vote to enable him to extend his rule.
The opposition denounced it
as a "constitutional coup".
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