In Burkina Faso, Lieutenant-Colonel Emmanuel Zoungrana was brought before the prosecutor of the military tribunal in Ouagadougou, after several hours, with other people about allegations ” threat to state security “, according to a statement released on Wednesday, December 28 in the evening. The senior officer had just been provisionally released after an 11-month detention, accused of plotting against ex-president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.
According to the prosecutor, the first elements of the investigation indicate that soldiers and civilians were preparing an operation to bring Lieutenant-Colonel Emmanuel Zoungrana to the top of the Burkinabè state.
The group would have been in contact with the unit led by the officer, ” the green mambas “. According to the prosecutor, reinforcements were expected from other units “. Their project would have been prepared during the visits to the MACA prison, where Emmanuel Zoungrana spent 11 months in preventive detentionas well as by telephone.
Also according to the military prosecutor, their plan included simultaneous attacks on public television, the military prison and the residence of the current leader of Burkina Faso, putschist captain Ibrahim Traoré.
According to the prosecution, several witnesses have already been heard in the investigation and two people are still wanted. A mobile phone was found in Lieutenant-Colonel Emmanuel Zoungrana’s cell during his detention in early November, but he reportedly refused to reveal the code.
” It was for the manifestation of the truth that he was arrested “at his home in Pabré on Tuesday” not without resistance and with propaganda on the web commented the prosecutor on Wednesday evening.
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