With his bald head and piercing eyes reminiscent of Yevgeny Prigojine – the late boss of the Russian Wagner militia – the Franco-Romanian mercenary Horatiu Potra has become, in recent months, one of the main figures of the private armed groups who reign in chaos from the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). But, since Sunday December 8, it is above all for his troubled role in the campaign of pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu in the Romanian presidential election that this 54-year-old former member of the French Foreign Legion has serious concerns in his country. original.
Romanian police arrested him on the night of Saturday December 7 to Sunday December 8, while he was on his way to Bucharest with knives and various bladed weapons, the equivalent of 30,000 euros in cash in different currencies and a compressed air gun. The boss of Congo Protection is suspected by the Ploiesti public prosecutor's office of having sought to reach the Romanian capital to push, with other mercenaries active in Africa, to “violence” on the sidelines of demonstrations planned that day to protest against the surprise cancellation, on December 6, of the second round of the presidential election.
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Source: Lemonde