Authorities led by Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya and a delegation from the International Criminal Court (ICC), currently in Conakry, are pushing for the September 28 trial to begin at the end of the month. The date of the 26th was thus mentioned. If technically everything is almost in place for the holding of the trial, the question now arises of the presence of the accused.
With our special correspondent in Conakry, Guillaume Thibault
If he is currently in Burkina Faso, captain Moussa Dadis Camara ” wish to come and tell his part of the truth “explains one of his relatives. Joined by RFI, his lawyer Me Jean-Baptiste Haba Jocamey completes: “ My client welcomes the current progress related to the organization of the trial. He’ll be in court, that’s for sure. “.
Health
The position of his former aide-de-camp, Commander Aboubakar Diakité known as “Toumba”, is different. In prison in Conakry since his extradition from Senegal in 2017, the ex-soldier believes that his state of health does not allow him to appear, explains his lawyer, Me Paul Yomba Kourouma, who visited his client on Thursday: ” He fears a benign tumor of the pancreas. And it is under these conditions that we would like to have him appear to answer the 15 charges. »
Thirteen people
Thirteen people are charged in this September 28 case. On the night of September 3, Colonel Tiegboro Camara, close to Moussa Dadis Camara in 2009, who later became Alpha Condé’s anti-drug gentleman, was reportedly blocked at Conakry airport. On our antenna, the Minister of Justice Alphonse Charles Wright recalled that the general ban on leaving the territory was applied for all those involved in this file, in particular for Lieutenant Claude Pivi, former Minister in charge of Presidential Security of Moussa Dadis Camara. ” The September 28 file will spare no one “said Alphonse Charles Wright.
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