Hundreds of people have demonstrated in Chad against the French president Nicholas Sarkozy and his involvement in the case of suspected kidnapping by a French charity that tried to fly more than 100 African children to Europe.
The protestors carried anti-Sarkozy banners and yelled slogans against French colonialism in Africa.
The protest came one day after authorities in Chad released three Spanish flight crew members and a Belgian pilot detained in the case.
The three Spaniards left Chad on a Spanish government jet for Madrid while the Belgian was to leave later on a Belgian military aircraft.
Chadian lawyer Jean-Bernard Padare, representing the freed Europeans, said the four had been charged with complicity in the alleged kidnapping plot but were ordered released by a judge.
Six workers with the French charity Zoe's Ark remain in custody in
Chad.
