French person among 6 held over plot to kill Madagascar president

Public security minister says those arrested also included two Malagasy and two Malagasy and French bi-nationals.

A French citizen is among six suspects arrested over a failed plot to murder Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina and other top political figures in the Indian Ocean island nation, according to officials. “One of the arrested people is French, two of them are bi-national: Malagasy and French. The three others are Malagasy,”  Rodellys Fanomezantsoa Randrianarison, the public security minister, said late on Thursday. Patrick Rajoelina, an adviser to the president, said two of those arrested had previously worked in the French military.