SHOTLIST 1. Tilt down of building where body of Brahim Deby was found in basement, with police outside 2. Mid of police officers outside building 2. Various of policemen in plain clothes inside building 3. Close up sign reading "stairs parking" 4. Policemen in plain clothes by lifts of building 5. SOUNDBITE: (French) Michelle (no surname given) resident in the apartment block where Idriss Deby was found dead: "This morning the building caretaker found the dead body of someone as he was taking the rubbish out. I have since learned from the radio that the dead person might be the son of the Chadian president." 6. Policemen entering building 7. SOUNDBITE: (French) Celine (no surname given) resident in the apartment block where Idriss Deby was found dead: "When he left for work at 8 o'clock (0600GMT) this morning he (referring to her father) saw firemen in the basement trying to resuscitate a man who apparently lives in the building. Apparently he was attacked at 6:30 (0430GMT) this morning in the basement." 8. Policewoman in plain clothes and policeman at entrance in basement 9. Police outside building 10. Investigators coming out of basement, refusing to talk to the press 11. Policeman at basement entrance using radio 12. Pan down from building to entrance of garage STORYLINE The son of Chadian President Idriss Deby was found dead with a gash on his head Monday in the basement of his apartment building in a Paris suburb, and officials were treating the case as a murder investigation, judicial officials said. Brahim Deby's body was found early on Monday by the building's caretaker, the prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said. The prosecution official said Deby had apparently died violently and that authorities were working on the hypothesis that he had been murdered. Earlier, officials said the body was found in a corridor between the underground parking lot and a flight of stairs in the building in Courbevoie, west of Paris. Paris police were investigating the death, and an autopsy was to be performed later on Monday, the officials said. One of the residents of the apartment block where Idriss Deby was found dead recounted her knowledge of the incident. "This morning the building caretaker found the dead body of someone as he was taking the rubbish out. I have since learned from the radio that the dead person might be the son of the Chadian president," she said. Another resident of the block, Celine, said her father had seen firemen "trying to resuscitate a man" in the basement of the building. The Chadian leader was told of his son's death in Accra, Ghana, where he is attending the African Union summit, his communications office said, saying the news came as a "great shock" to him. President Deby was not expected to make an announcement until further details are available from investigators. The spokesman said the president would not cut short his trip to Ghana but stay through the end of the summit on Tuesday. The 27-year-old Brahim Deby, was the president's oldest son and had no official government post, according to the president's office, which added President Deby was in Ghana on Monday for an African Union summit. Brahim Deby was convicted on drugs and weapons charges in June 2006. A Paris court handed him a suspended six-month jail sentence for possession of drugs and illegally carrying a weapon. A poor central African nation, Chad shares a border with the violence-wracked Darfur region of Sudan. Conflict from the Darfur crisis has spilled over into eastern Chad. Chadian rebels have also challenged Idriss Deby, who first came to power himself at the head of rebel columns. Competition for power in Chad has intensified since it began exporting oil several years ago. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d2016488200a0f8e0b56ed18c7720fe5 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 21 Jul 2015
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