Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo is urging Ivorians to stop attacking French citizens and businesses after French troops destroyed two Ivorian warplanes on Saturday, a presidential spokesman said. Rampaging youths in the main city Abidjan set fire to French schools and businesses and roughed up French nationals. A French school was also set ablaze in the capital Yamoussoukro, witnesses said. The French troops destroyed two Ivorian warplanes after an air strike on a French barracks in the rebel stronghold of Bouake killed eight French soldiers and one American citizen. "Pending an investigation into these incidents ... the President of the Republic has asked that all Ivorian men and women, even if they are angry about what happened, do not attack foreign goods and businesses, and in particular that nobody attack French interests," Gbagbo's spokesman Desire Tagro said on national television. --SP 0110 Local Time 2210 GMT
