Abidjan - French troops fired "directly" at the crowd without warning during an anti-French rally outside an Abidjan hotel earlier this month, an Ivorian police colonel charged on Sunday. Georges Guiai Bi Poin, commander of the Abidjan police academy, who was in charge of about 60 police officers on duty outside the Ivoire hotel to stop demonstrators from storming the building, told AFP that "French troops fired directly into the crowd. "They opened fire on the orders of their chief, colonel D'Estremon. Without warning." Throughout the night Guiai Bi Poin was at colonel D'Estremon's side in the hotel lobby. Almost...