A police station in Ivory Coast (illustration image). - Issouf SANOGO / AFP

He wanted to recover his house. A guard killed a French economic operator working in Bouaké, in the center of the Ivory Coast, on December 25, the prosecutor of the Republic of Bouaké told AFP on Thursday.

Jacky Charles Schaeffer, 65, who had worked in the bakery sector in Bouaké for many years, was killed by his guard who "struck him twice in the neck with a chevron while he was sitting on his terrace" , said prosecutor Braman Koné. Goalkeeper Serges Konan Koffi was locked up on Thursday.

"Give my house to Serges"

After the murder, he "wrote in a receipt book" Give my house to Serges "to try to make believe that his boss had bequeathed his house to him before killing himself," said Braman Koné. The assassin also stole 37,000 CFA francs (50 euros), said the prosecutor.

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