A French citizen and five other persons have been arrested over a failed attempt to kill the President of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina.
They had also allegedly plotted to kill other top politicians in Madagascar.
Madagascar government officials made the arrests known.
“One of the arrested people is French, two of them are bi-national: Malagasy and French. The three others are Malagasy,” according to Rodellys Fanomezantsoa Randrianarison, the public security minister.

