Camel French President Eaten Residents Mali

                            

PARIS, KOMPAS.com - Malang true fate of the camel to Timbuktu resident awarded French President Francois Hollande as a form of gratitude for freeing the city from Islamist rebels, has been eaten by the family that should take care of the camel .

Hollande get a gift for a camel during a visit to Mali, in February after sending troops to help the rebels oust Mali government-backed Al Qaeda.

When receiving camel, Hollande had joked that he could use it to break the camel traffic jams of Paris.

Initially, Hollande intend to vaccinate the camel took him to Paris to be kept in a zoo. However, he finally handed it to a camel local family to be treated.

However, maintaining a camel seems to be too much for the family. So, they decided to kill and eat these poor animals.

News about the fate of the camel, it sounds French Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian who then pass it on to Hollande.

Apparently, according to the magazine Valeurs Actuelles , Le Drian specifically tasked to monitor the progress and news of the camel.

Knowing this, the Government of Mali was embarrassed and promised President Hollande a camel new to be sent to Paris.

"When we heard this (the fate of the camel), we immediately replace it with a camel bigger and better," said an official from Mali.

"The camel will be sent to Paris. We really feel ashamed of what happened to the camel before. The camel was a gift and he was not supposed to die, "added the official.