"They came to my house this afternoon and said they wanted to have a private meeting with me but I declined," Mohamed Tahir Baladudu, the government appointee in the Kilometer 5 district, told Anadolu Agency late Monday.
"I told them my house is not an office and if they wanted to meet me then they should meet me together with the entire community which I represented at the city hall where my office is," he explained.
"We shall be meeting with the French commanders tomorrow (Tuesday) at 10am at the town hall," said Baladudu, who is highly respected within the interim government and enjoy clout with the Muslim community.
He declined to give AA the names or the contacts of the French commanders.
The spokesman of the French peacekeepers was not immediately available for comment.
CAR, a landlocked, mineral-rich country, descended into anarchy in March, when Seleka rebels – said to be mostly Muslim – ousted Christian president François Bozize, who had come to power in a 2003 coup.
The country has since been plagued by tit-for-tat sectarian violence between the self-styled Christian militias, known as "anti-balaka," and former seleka fighters.
According to UN estimates, more than 400,000 people – nearly ten percent of the country's 4.6 million-strong population – have abandoned their homes as a result of the violence.
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Baladudu, an outspoken critic of the French military intervention in CAR, said he had told the French commanders to stop disarming Muslims.
"The French troops have been coming here to kilometer 5, disarming Muslims and immediately when they finish the exercise the anti-balaka Christian militants come and attack my defenseless community," he insisted.
Thousands of Bangui's Muslims staged protests earlier this month against French troops.
They accused the French of disarming only the ex-seleka fighters and not the Christian militia.
Baladudu said there was growing hatred towards the French among the local Muslim community.
"The sangaris (a local way of refer to the French soldiers in CAR) have been watching as Muslim homes and businesses are looted," he charged.
France has deployed 1,600 soldiers to restore peace in its former colony under a UN mandate.
Efforts to get a comment from the French military spokesmen were futile as they did not answer their phones.
But they have previously denied allegations of siding with the Christian militants.
Nonetheless, local resentment for the French soldiers is all but evident in Muslims areas with graffiti and anti-French slogans on the walls.
A big banner on one of the main streets of Kilometer 5 read: "No to France."
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