In Guinea, on February 1, 2023, Colonel Blaise Goumou was called to the bar for the fifth time in the trial of the massacres of September 28, 2009, which left more than 150 dead in Conakry. He was ” precise, clear and coherent in his responses, according to one of his lawyers. While for one of the lawyers for the civil party, the one who was a gendarmerie officer and former military prosecutor at the material time multiplied the ” untruths “. Report.
With our correspondent in Conakry, Mouctar Bah
In Guinea, the trial of the September 28, 2009 massacres in Conakry continues. Massacres that left more than 150 dead, a hundred women raped and dozens missing. Colonel Blaise Goumou, gendarmerie officer and former military prosecutor at the material time, was again invited to the bar on February 1, 2023.
Suit and tie, Colonel Blaise Goumou, straight in his boots, first answered the questions of the lawyers of the civil parties, of those who defend Toumba Diakité (another defendant), before facing his own lawyers who believe that their client defends himself well.
” He doesn’t wander »
” He is precise, clear and consistent in the answers he gives to questions put to him.says master Pépé Antoine Lamah. He does not wander, he says things as he experienced them, without distorting them “.
Blaise Goumou has however, according to observers, been put in difficulty by the public prosecutor and the civil parties. ” What interests me are the factsreplies Pepe Lamah. Have the facts articulated against Colonel Blaise Goumou been proven at the bar of this court? We are in criminal court. We are in the judgment phase. Here, the evidence speaks “.
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For the lawyers of the civil parties, on the other hand, the defendant Goumou only tells untruths.
This is what master Alpha Amadou DS Bah maintains: ” We have seen an accused who speaks discourteously towards the lawyers, who is in systematic denial and above all the attempt to protect Moussa Dadis Camara (the ex-head of the junta at the time of the facts, Editor’s note) and his clan. All his statements on the stand are untruths. We have no doubts about his participation in the September 28 stadium. »
Before this Wednesday’s session was adjourned, Colonel Blaise Goumou, who has been appearing for a week, questioned the report of the international commission of inquiry which puts him in question.
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