Mobile phone footage showing republican guards ordering five women to take off their clothes is causing outrage in Congo-Brazzaville. In a wooded area in the capital city, Brazzaville, the guards laughed at their victims throughout the ordeal. Our Observers say republican guards can operate with impunity.
Several interviews carried out by France 24 suggest the incident took place in the Patte d’Oie Forest, an overgrown area and red-light district common with pr0zt!tut3$ from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. The forest is next to the Parliamentary Palace, where the Forbes Economic Forum on the emerging African middle class was taking place at the time.
The men are recognisable as members of the Republican Guard because of their traditional purple berets. One of the guards present during the incident filmed the incident using the camera on his mobile phone. Several times, a guard sitting in a car says: “Ma’am, take everything off now, and quickly!”
When the women are completely na@kd, the men ask: “Look at yourselves, aren’t you ashamed?” They then force them to wade into a thicket of stinging nettles. At the end of the video, the five women were allowed to get dressed and were told never to return to the forest.
The video was posted on YouTube and DailyMotion.
When contacted by France 24, the communications officer for the Congo-Brazzaville presidential office, André Ondélé, claimed that the office was not aware of this incident. France 24 has sent him the video and we will publish his comments if we receive a response.
“These women are probably pr0st!tut3s from the DRC…the guards wanted to tell them they are not welcome here”
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