The French military has been conducting an inquiry into charges of child sex abuse by troops in the Central African Republic since last July, it emerged after a UN report on the allegations was leaked to a British newspaper. President François Hollande promised to "show no mercy" if the allegations prove to be true.
"If true, the facts are extremely serious," Families Minister Laurence Rossignol told French media on Thursday. "We know very well that during wars or in countries in chaos women and children are predators' first victims. That means that, if people who are there to protect them are predators, from a certain point of view they've committed a double crime."
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