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Comorans protest after Bacar flees

Protesters demanded that Bacar be sent back

to Comoros to face trial [AFP]

Ahmed Abdalla Sambi, president of Comoros, has urged peaceful demonstrations against France after it moved the defeated president of Anjouan island to Reunion.

Mohammed Bacar fled by speedboat to the nearby French-ruled island of Mayotte after an African Union backed military invasion.

Several thousand Comorans on Friday demanded that the former Anjouan leader be extradited in the Comoros to stand trial on charges of torture.

"You are right to express your dissatisfaction, but do not resort to violence," Sambi said.

The Union of Comoros government has issued an international arrest warrant for Bacar, who Simba has accused of planning to seek independence for Anjouan.

"If France doesn't want to extradite him to a country where the death penalty is still in force, then it should hand him over to another court such as the one in The Hague," Sambi said.