Policemen stand in front of the vehicle in which Comoros island of Anjouan Mohamed Bacar sits, in the Courthouse in Saint Denis, on the French island of La Reunion, on March 29, 2008. A court on the French island of Reunion dismissed a case against Bacar but ordered him held in custody. The decision also involved 23 other men, mostly soldiers. All will remain in detention for the time being, police said. They were to have faced charges of illegal entry into the French territory of Mayotte and carrying unauthorised weapons. Bacar and his 23 men, mostly members of the military, were detained when they landed on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, where they had been transferred overnight Thursday by French military plane. Bacar was president of Anjouan island from March 2002 but his re-election in June 2007 was declared illegal by the Comoros and the African Union and he was ousted in a military operation Tuesday. He fled to Mayotte, an island in the Comoros which stayed French when the the rest of the archipelago opted for independence in 1974. AFP PHOTO RICHARD BOUHET (Photo credit should read RICHARD BOUHET/AFP/***** Images)
