Thursday, November 3, the prosecutor of Commune IV of Bamako indicted and placed under arrest warrant a Malian writer and five other people for ” offense of a religious nature that may cause disturbances to public order », Reports Serge Danielour correspondent in the region.
It is a video that has circulated widely on social networks that has sparked the anger of Muslims in Mali. We see a man who, with respect to the Muslim region, makes remarks deemed serious, hurtful, blasphemous. The author of the statements is now the most wanted man in the country. But while waiting for it gather “As a source familiar with the matter says, five other people were charged and imprisoned on Thursday for” offense of a religious nature that may cause disturbances to public order “.
Like the fugitive, they are members of a religious current according to some, of a sect according to others. In any case, they question the existence of God and his prophets. One of those charged is a well-known Malian writer: Doumbi Fakoly Doumbia. In a voice widely distributed in Bamako, he defended the wanted man and his ideas.
The president-guru of the sect is also imprisoned. The case caused a stir in the capital. In addition to its call to demonstrate on Friday, the High Islamic Council of Mali filed a complaint. The authorities, while denouncing the words of the man on the run, call for calm.