In Guinea Conakry, the attorney general announced this Wednesday, May 4, prosecutions against ex-president Alpha Condé and 26 former senior officials under his presidency. They are notably accused of assassinations, acts of torture and kidnappings.
These lawsuits were launched following the violence that surrounded the project of a 3rd term of Alpha Condé, and in particular the repression, often brutal, of the demonstrations which had surrounded the referendum allowing to modify the Constitution so that Alpha Condé remains in power.
The crisis had resulted in dozens of deaths, mostly civilians. the collective FNDC, the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, had led this angry movement for months. It was he who filed a complaint against Alpha Condé and 26 former senior civil and military officials of his regime. Officials today targeted by the prosecutor.
Among them is the former President of the Constitutional Court, Mohamed Lamine Bangoura and former Defense Minister Mohamed Diané, General Ansoumane Camara who was Director General of Police at the time.
In this group of 27, some are already targeted by legal proceedings, but for alleged acts of embezzlement. This time, it is criminal, with charges of murder, enforced disappearance, torture, sexual assault, looting, kidnapping or kidnapping.
Prosecutor Alphonse Charles Wright is therefore launching an investigation with already evidence, images, videos, which have been provided to him by the FNDC. It is also based on reports from international NGOs such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch.
The magistrate returns to the project of 3rd term of Alpha Condé, in violation of the Constitution. He evokes the bellicose remarks of Alpha Condé and his entourage during political meetings, explicitly calling on his populations to confrontation.
He also cites the total impunity from which the security forces benefited to put down the demonstrations in blood.