The story could be a story if it was not that of a German tennis player, one of the best of his generation against a state, the Central African Republic, drifting for 6 years, between coup d’etat State, transitional government, elections and sales of diamonds by armed groups under sectarian confessional wars on the nose and beard of UN forces.
London-based bankrupt Boris Becker, who has a photo with the Central African President Faustin Archange Touadéra, says he has a valid Central African passport (his interview was due to be broadcast on June 24th). BBC). For its part, the Central African Republic denies, estimating that the sesame would certainly come from a lot of stolen passports.
The former world No. 1, now 50 years old, says he was appointed in April attached to the European Union for cultural, sports and humanitarian affairs of the Central African Republic. “I received this passport from the ambassador, I spoke to the president many times,” said Boris Becker at the BBC. (…) I think that the documents they give me are authentic “. He also assured that he would be “very happy to go to Bangui” to find a way to “resolve this misunderstanding”.
Bangui persists and signs. “This document is a fake. I know him, I know my signature. I am serious, “Foreign Minister Charles Armel Doubane told Deutsche Welle. Its chief of staff, Chérubin Mologbama, said that the document issued on March 19, 2018 displays a serial number that corresponds to “virgin passports stolen in 2014”. Everything is wrong, it seems. Everything except the photo of the tennis player with the Central African president.
In fact, it seems that there is a problem of data centralization between the Central African Embassy in Brussels, the Presidency of the Republic and the Central African Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
