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In the spotlight: Alpha Condé, the ex-president of Guinea Conakry, prosecuted for "assassinations"

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Former Guinean President Alpha Condé, in August 2015. AFP / CELLOU BINANI

By: Fanny Bleichner

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The announcement was made yesterday by the Attorney General of Conakry after a complaint from the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, a collective which for months led the protest against a third term of Alpha Condé.

A violently repressed movement, dozens of people were killed, it was in 2019.

In all, 27 personalities are targeted for "

murder, assassination and complicity

", enforced disappearances, detentions, kidnappings, acts of torture, assault and battery.

After this announcement, many reactions.

As on the 

Mosaïque Guinée

site with "

 the lawyer for OGDH, one of the organizations which recently requested the opening of legal proceedings for crimes of blood beyond economic crimes, Me Alpha Amadou DS Bah maintains that this procedure is a real challenge for Guinean justice to prove its independence, proclaimed loud and clear by the CNRD

”.

These prosecutions must lead to real investigations so that the perpetrators and sponsors of these despicable crimes are prosecuted

and brought to justice so that exemplary sanctions are inflicted on the leaders of this country, who once believed themselves above the law.

-he.

Reaction also of the lawyers of the victims of this repression to read on

Africa Guinea

: “Maître William Bourdon and Maître Vincent Brengarth are delighted with this decision (…) [and] assure that they will remain particularly vigilant so that the rights of the victims are respected and that the investigations carried out are effective”. 

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The lawsuit of the ex-president makes a lot of noise

The Burkinabè

 Wakatséra

site is already promising “ 

sleepless nights

 ” even if it would be “

 difficult in any case to cry over the Alpha Condé case, which even brought the military coup in Guinea up to date. 

»

An opinion shared by

Le Pays

, another Burkinabè media, because "if

he had accepted, at the end of his two constitutional mandates, to assert his rights to retirement, Alpha Condé would currently be taking it easy with of his grandchildren, far from the caudine forks of justice where his own mistakes have unfortunately led him.

He looked for it and he found it.

So let him take full responsibility!

It is the ransom of the bulimia of power.

Today in Faso

speaks of a

"

powerist frenzy".

It remains to be seen what will happen next, the

Wakatsera

editorialist hoping that it will not be “

 just an opportunity for the new master military putschists to humiliate the former constitutional putschist master!

 »

Formerly powerful, the 27 prosecuted will therefore have to answer for their actions, but

Guinea 7

recalls that the prosecutor also promised "

to initiate legal proceedings against all persons who, in violation of the legal provisions, organized marches or processions on the public highway or public places which caused the commission of the presumed offences, subject of the present procedure

 ” knowing “

 that almost all FNDC demonstrations were banned at the time.

Not without counting the destruction of public and private property following these demonstrations.

When we know that the FNDC at one time brought together the entire opposition of Alpha Condé, it goes without saying that the action of the prosecutor Wright targets the entire socio-political class of the Alpha Condé regime. 

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Also on the front page, Mali

Maliweb reconsiders

the decision of Togo to agree to play the mediators in the Malian file.

It will be 

a question of “helping the country to convince ECOWAS and the international community on a compromise around the elections which can only take place in 24 months.

 " Firstly because the president is the dean of the region but also for his approach to the transition process and his experience of fifteen years of embargo according to the newspaper which adds: " 

Faure Gnassingbé will thus have to help Mali to convince regional actors, and more broadly, the entire international community"

for this compromise which

"will take Mali out of its current situation and strengthen the stability of the region

".

The Senegalese

Daily

then compares the situation in several countries on the continent.

The military regimes in Mali, Burkina and Guinea have the same strategy as the mullahs of Tehran or the Castro, because they have understood that their survival is in the instinctive sacred union created by the sanctions, which means that all criticism is denounced by their thurifers as collusion with the foreigner, which makes the people suffer by imposing a collective punishment on them.

This explains why the military regimes of these three countries do not want to give reasonable deadlines to allow sanctions to be lifted and a way out of the crisis.

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