Last week, Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz underwent two successful heart surgeries. He is recovering at the National Cardiology Center. When he leaves, he will be able to return home.
Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz will not return to the military school where he had been detained for more than six months, the Ministry of Justice announced on Friday (January 7) in a press release. The investigating judge signed an order authorizing the former president to return to his home. Given his state of health, Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz is again on bail, subject to strict judicial control.
For those close to them, it is obviously a relief. For weeks, the daughter and sisters of Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz denounced his conditions of detention as degrading. ” I’m really happy that my father is free again, Asma Abdel Aziz, the daughter of the former president, told RFI. It is only a provisional release but we hope that soon it will be total »She concluded. The family of Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz continues to ask that he be able to continue his care abroad.
On the part of the civil party, Master Brahim Ould Ebety, president of the bar, at the head of the pole of state lawyers constituted for this case, did not wish to comment on the provisional release of the former president.
According to his relatives, Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz, whose condition is improving, must remain in hospital for several days before returning home, where his visits will be closely monitored, explains his lawyer Mohamed Thaleb Khiar.
The former president is being prosecuted for illicit enrichment, concealment and money laundering during the ten years he was in business. He had been in jail since June for failing to fulfill the obligations of his judicial review.