The Attorney General of Conakry, Alphonse Charles Wright, announced, Wednesday, May 4, legal proceedings against the former leader Alpha Condé and nearly thirty high personalities who exercised under his regime, for multiple reasons including assassinations and acts of torture.
He « gave instructions for the purposes of legal proceedings by way of denunciation against Mr. Condé and 26 other personalities for murder, assassination and complicity, enforced disappearances, detentions, kidnappings, acts of torture, intentional assault and battery, rape and sexual assault or more acts of looting”, underlines the requisitions sent to the media.
Prosecutions should be initiated immediately. In addition to the former head of state, a former president of the Constitutional Court, former presidents of the Assembly, a former Prime Minister and numerous former ministers, deputies and heads of the security services are among the personalities prosecuted. They are all prohibited from leaving the country and from having their property seized as a precaution.
As a reminder, Alpha Condé was overthrown by a military coup last September led by special forces, about a year after the start of his third term as head of the country. It is precisely this additional mandate, obtained thanks to the modification of the Constitution, which would be at the origin of his torments.
Indeed, the prosecutor’s instruction follows a complaint filed last January by French lawyers William Bourdon and Vincent Brengarth, who represent the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), a group recognized for having attempted to prevent a third term for Condé. The platform denounces abuses and blood crimes committed during demonstrations against this unconstitutional mandate.
By OMA Newsletter N° 690 of 05/05/2022
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