Jean-Bédel Bokassa#Operation Barracuda

Operation Barracuda in 1979 carried out by French special forces to overthrow the Emperor Bokassa of Central Africa.

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On September 20, 1979 2:00 clock at night landed at the airport in Bangui two Transall C-160 of the first paratroopers Marine Regiment of the French Army. They were of previously infiltrated scouts of SDECE Using flashlights on the unlit airstrip directed. Once the paratroopers had brought the airport violent under their control, they moved with requisitioned vehicles on the city center on, on their way the government soldiers at roadblocks capturing. Meanwhile flew eight vollbemannte Puma helicopter from the Chadian capital Ndjamena to Bangui and in the residence after Bokassa Berengo neutralized and there the Imperial Guard Bokassa.

The 1966 toppled Bokassa David Dacko accompanied the troops and proclaimed in a radio address on the next day the successor to the in Libya for a state visit because end Bokassa.