At the trial of the September 28, 2009 massacre, the former head of the junta was again questioned on Tuesday, January 17 by defense lawyers. He had full latitude to develop his version of the facts.
With our correspondent in Conakry, Matthias Raynal
Shortly after 10 a.m. this Tuesday, January 17, the lawyer for Claude Pivi, Minister in charge of Presidential Security at the time of the events, begins to ask his questions. It addresses in particular the management of the bodies of the deceased, while some defendants are suspected of having participated in the disappearance of corpses. During the interrogation, the lawyer tries to exonerate the former head of the junta. ” The president of the transition did not have to take care of this mission “, he assures, mission delegated to the Minister of Health at the time, Abdoulaye Chérif Diaby.
The two men end up denying the existence of mass graves and the council asks: You don’t think not that this story is a creation, like many other elements in this file? “. It is then the turn of Dadis’s lawyers to speak. An interrogation in the same vein, for example on this question of the management of bodies: “ If you wanted to hide corpses, would you have ordered them to be filmed? ? », reference to the authorization obtained by France24 shortly after the massacre, to capture the image of these shrouds aligned at the Fayçal mosque.
It is the eleventh time Dadis has been called to the stand, he has been appearing since December. After the prosecutor and his substitutes, after the civil parties, the floor was given last week to the defense. The hearing of the former head of state should end this week.
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