French Citizen Among Six Held Over Plan to Kill Madagascar President: Minister

French Citizen Among Six Held Over Plan to Kill Madagascar President: Minister
Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina attends a meeting to discuss the 20th replenishment of the World Bank's International Development Association, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on July 15, 2021. Luc Gnago/Reuters
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ANTANANARIVO—A French citizen is among six people arrested on suspicion of involvement in a plot to kill Madagascar’s president, the Indian Ocean island’s public security minister said, and a second official said the president’s security had been tightened.

“One of the arrested people is French, two of them are bi-national—Malagasy and French. The three others are Malagasy,” Rodellys Fanomezantsoa Randrianarison told a news conference late on Thursday.