Squad probes ‘plot’ to take Seychelles
NZPA-Reuter London Britain’s anti-terrorist squad is investigating an alleged plot to overthrow the Left-wing Government in the Seychelles, said Scotland Yard police headquarters yesterday. A spokeswoman said that detectives were studying a dossier on the alleged plot K'ided by the "Sunday es” newspaper. According to the newspaper, a group of Seychelles exiles met in a London hotel last week to plan the overthrow of President Albert Rene. It said that its correspondents were able to listen to conversations by the group because unknown agents had bugged the hotel room.
The plot was in two stages, it added. The first was to be a programme of destabilisation using a mercenary vanguard to explode bombs and set fire to hotels and public buildings. Then, later this year, 300 mercenaries recruited in South Africa were to tackle the president’s defence forces. The newspaper said that a leading member of the Seychelles Resistance Movement was behind the plot. It said that two men who died in a car bomb explosion in the Seychelles recently were part of the mercenary vanguard.. The Seychelles police have said that the two men were South African
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