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Children: Trois-Rivi Res and War Crime

children: The children don't understand," said his wife, Geneviève Trottier, according to CBC. Ivorian man in Quebec accused of war crimes Trottier said their children, a four-year-old and three-year-old twins, are suffering from stomach aches and have been acting out in daycare. "At first, we lied. If deported, Abou Fofana will leave his Quebec-born wife and three young children behind in Trois-Rivières, 135 kilometres northeast of Montreal. "It definitely very difficult. We told them he was leaving on vacation to Africa," she said. His application for refugee status was rejected three years later, IRCC concluding that "there are serious reasons to think, beyond a simple suspicion, that Fofana has committed a war crime as a member of the rebel group, the Force nouvelles." Michele Torre, ex-convict, makes final plea to avoid deportation Fofana acknowledged he worked for that group as a carpenter in order to survive. However, the children kept asking why he was choosing to leave. "Finally, we opted for the truth." Carpenter or war criminal When Fofana came to Canada in 2008 seeking asylum, he identified himself as an artist and dancer, officials from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.