Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin vowed on Thursday that France would ensure a full and transparent criminal investigation into the suspicious death of an Ivorian civilian linked to French peacekeepers, according to Reuters. Last week, the French Defence Ministry acknowledged for the first time that its troops had not been acting in legitimate defence in the incident in which the Ivorian man died. French investigators in Paris have launched a criminal probe for voluntary manslaughter into the May death. "There is a willingness to go through with this (inquiry) in total transparency and to take the necessary measures, in terms of justice and fairness," Villepin said at his regular monthly news briefing.
