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BRUSSELS, March 23 (KUNA) -- Eurojust, the European Union(EU) agency for judicial cooperation in criminal matter, held the first coordination meeting with West African countries on Thursday and Friday at the Hague.
The meeting, held to discuss the judicial follow-up to four terrorist attacks, was organized at the request of France and gathered, apart from the French judicial authorities, judicial representatives from Mali, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast, as well as other EU member-states and third countries that were affected by the attacks.
Representatives from Europol and INTERPOL also participated, said Eurojust in a press release Saturday.
The attacks took place on 7 March and 20 November 2015 in Bamako, Mali, on 15 January 2016 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and on 13 March 2016 in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, killing 74 people and injuring many others.
This coordination meeting was the first of its kind with West African countries regarding terrorist attacks. The focus was not only on exchanging operational information on ongoing investigations, but also on sharing information on victims and taking stock of the current terrorist threat in the West African region, it noted. (end)
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