France‘s foreign minister said on Tuesday that an attack by protesters against the French embassy in DR Congo‘s capital Kinshasa was “unacceptable”.
French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on a post on X that the French embassy in Kinshasa was attacked and briefly caught fire, although the blaze had been brought under control.
Jean-Noel Barrot said on X that the attack had caused a fire, which he said was now under control, after the embassies of Rwanda, France, Belgium and the United States were all targeted, with smoke billowing above the French embassy building.
Speaking on national TV, Congo’s Communications Minister Patrick Muyaya urged protesters to stop their attacks. He later said the situation had been brought under control.
“We have every right… to express our anger, but let’s do it peacefully. Let’s not attack the consular infrastructures of countries accredited in Congo,” he said.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, Reuters)
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