In this neighborhood adjoining Abidjan international airport, in Côte d'Ivoire, the bulldozers began their destructive ballet at dawn, Thursday, January 23, without the inhabitants having been warned, the French correspondents noted. 24.

Airport residents thought they had 45 days to move out. They didn't even have time to gather their things. The destroyed district is located on the airport right-of-way, therefore on public and unbuildable land.

After the death, on January 8, of a child who had slipped into the landing gear of a plane departing for Paris, the Ivorian authorities decided to raze the area to secure the area and avoid any further intrusion . But the residents of the neighborhood, most of them very poor, seem to be held responsible for the death of the adolescent.

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