Attacks on March 13, 2016 in Grand-Bassam
At least 18 people were killed in the attacks on March 13, 2016 in Grand-Bassam , a port city in Côte d'Ivoire , and at least 21 according to other sources. At least 33 other people were injured. The radical Islamist group al-Qaida in the Maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack .
Six men armed with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades shot at bathers on a UNESCO-listed beach in Grand-Bassam on Sunday, March 13, 2016, from 1:00 p.m. local time , and then attacked the three neighboring hotels “La Nouvelle Paillote "," L´Étoile du Sud "and" Koral Beach II ". According to eyewitnesses, they are said to have called out Allahu akbar . Two of the men shot dead hotel guests on the beach, four of the men were with a Ford - Limousine pulled up and had only once in a hotel in Arabic drinks ordered. Then they kicked over the table they were sitting at and opened fire.
Among other things, three soldiers and three of the attackers were killed. Four French people were also killed, the German director of the Goethe-Institut Abidjan , Henrike Grohs , a Macedonian , as well as people from Burkina Faso , Cameroon and Mali .
The attack was compared with terrorist attacks with a similar approach and declarations of confession in the region: in Tunisia in June 2015 ( attack in Port El-Kantaoui ), in Mali in November 2015 ( attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako ) and in Burkina Faso in January 2016 (attack on the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou ).
Reactions (selection)
- Germany
“The attacks show again that the fight against terror is a common task of the international community. Only with the persistent and long-term commitment of all will it be possible to remove the basis of terror and its brutal apologists. "
- Cote d'Ivoire
The Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara visited the site of the attack and declared a three-day state mourning .
- United States
The United States strongly condemned the terrorist attacks.
See also
Web links
- Head of the Goethe-Institut dies in attack in Ivory Coast Article of March 13, 2016 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on March 15, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grand-Bassam: Germans killed in terrorist attacks in Ivory Coast ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. News from March 14, 2016 at t-online.de , accessed on March 15, 2016
- ^ Côte d'Ivoire: un lendemain sans touristes à Grand-Bassam . Article from March 15, 2016 on the Africa website of Voice of America (French), accessed March 15, 2016
- ^ Cote d'Ivoire: What's Behind the Jihadist Attacks On Grand Bassam . Article by Sella Onenko from March 14, 2016 on the website of the radio station Deutsche Welle (English)
- ↑ BBC News : French nationals killed in Ivory Coast beach attack . News from March 14, 2016 (English), accessed on March 15, 2016
- ↑ Foreign Minister Steinmeier on the attacks in Turkey and Côte d'Ivoire. In: Auswaertiges-amt.de. Federal Foreign Office, March 14, 2016, accessed on May 20, 2016 .
- ^ John Kirby: The United States Condemns Attack in Grand-Bassam, Cote d'Ivoire. (No longer available online.) In: state.gov. Bureau of Public Affairs, March 13, 2016, archived from the original June 24, 2016 ; accessed on May 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 5 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ N , 3 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ W.