File: C.Africa football boss held in France on war crimes charge France arrests Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona, a former minister and leader of armed groups in the Central African Republic, on war crime charges. The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Ngaissona for coordinating so-called anti-Balaka militias which emerged after civil war broke out in 2013 with the aim of defending Christian communities from mostly Muslim rebels. FILE IMAGES of Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona