White man suspected of being a terrorist in Yaounde released

The man arrested by the police on Friday, July 24 in front of the Tsinga Mosque in Yaounde was released after interrogation.

Last Friday, the news of the arrest of a Caucasian (white) man ran across the political capital of Cameroon. The news which spread by word of mouth was that the "white" man was nothing but a terrorist who was about to explode the great mosque of Tsinga in a Muslim neighborhood of Yaounde.

According to the Mutations newspaper in its Monday, July 27, 2015 edition, the accusation was not true. The arrested man had no explosives. "He has just been arrested and detained because his behavior was suspicious," said a source to the newspaper.

A police source told Mutations that "the information in town that the white man wore explosives was wrong and it must have been published by some of the people in the mosque. But we are not sure of anything."

Another source within the police told the newspaper that it is the back-and-forth movement of the man in the courtyard of the mosque and the clouds of smoke that ejected his mouth after while smoking a cigarette reinforced the idea that the white man could be a suicide bomber. The people, who are on on high alert, quickly alerted the police. The suspect was taken to the first district police before being acquitted.

According to a source close to Cameroun-Info.Net, the white man was a Western journalist. He was spotted by religious Muslim people in the neighborhood when he was taking pictures to make a documentary related to the war waged against the country by Boko Haram.