"We didn't expect that." Two days after the attack that claimed the lives of 8 people near Niamey, Niger, guides in the region are still in shock after the loss of one of their limbs. Party with seven employees of the NGO Acted to see the giraffes in Kouré, a nature reserve, Kadri Abdou, is one of the victims of the tragedy. A loss that shakes Djogo Adamou, member of the association of giraffe guides of Kouré, of which Kadri Abdou was the president. He testifies at the microphone of Europe 1.
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"In the region, there are no jihadists"
"The soldiers, the police, the gendarmes patrol everywhere in the bush", he explains. If this surveillance does not prevent "natives from doing their activities", the guide specifies that people do not go out at night. But from there to having such a bloodbath, he has a hard time believing it. "Even in the surrounding villages they are on edge, they wonder what is going on. We have not seen any strange behavior, in the region there are no jihadists, there is only giraffes! Here is the first time that we are the victim of this kind of attack. We never had this kind of problem, we did not expect that. "